Stuart A. Yeates wrote: > I would also add somewhere links to the definitions / standards for > each of these files types. Not everyone who encounters MARC can be > expected to know all the other acronyms-as-file-formats. My collection of data formats may help here. It's currently only documented in German with should be useful enough to look up links. For Instance at http://format.gbv.de/marc I list not less then seven serialization forms of MARC, binary MARC (=ISO MARC) and MARCXML just one two them. Cheers Jakob -- Jakob Voß <[log in to unmask]> Verbundzentrale des GBV (VZG) / Common Library Network Platz der Goettinger Sieben 1, 37073 Göttingen, Germany +49 (0)551 39-31031, http://www.gbv.de/