What I Like About Marc

• It's the earliest rich data format that I know of.
• It demonstrates lots of the data encoding techniques of its day. It may have invented some of them
• I see a forerunner in the card examples in Scientific Amerrican.
• It and the metadata it embodies is going forward into the future as part of the semantic web.

Rules for a Dictionary Catalog By Charles Ammi Cutter, Worthington Chauncey Ford, Philip Lee Phillips, Oscar George Theodore Sonneck

Rules for a Dictionary Catalog By Charles Ammi Cutter, Worthington Chauncey Ford, Philip Lee Phillips, Oscar George Theodore Sonneck: "1 To enable a person to find a book of which either A the author B the title V is known c the subject J 2 To show what the library has D by a given author E on a given subject F in a given kind of literature 3 To assist in the choice of a book G as to its edition bibliographically H as to its character literary or topical"

The Origins of MARC

Origins of MARC IBM punch card SciAm 9/1966 p232