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

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