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[Jay West]

Zane wrote...
> I should think that the Library of Congress MARC database format, which
> seems to be an international standard would be able to handle this.  There
> are lots of tools for manipulating MARC data, including programming
> libraries for various languages (I use Perl).

I just skimmed some basic information about it. It would SEEM to me (a total 
neophyte at MARC, hadn't heard of it till you mentioned it) that MARC is 
pretty complex, much moreso than is needed for this particular project.

More to the point, I can't seem to get my brain around if it is really 
suited to things other than books. It seems to focus on bibliographic 
information and such which may not translate well to paper tapes, disk 
images, manuals, images, etc.

If I'm being too dense to see how it applies (quite possible) can you point 
me to more specific docs that might help me?

I was thinking of something specific and lightweight as to record design?

Jay