[dev] Possibly interesting for Groo

[Luciano Ramalho]

Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:
> Would MARC support be of use to Groo?
>
> http://marc.coffeecode.net/
Yes, definitely. For US books, the only place to go if Amazon.com does 
not know about it, is the Library of Congress.

The LoC allows automated queries using a network protocol called Z39.50 
through which one can fetch book records in MARC format. MARC is a 
devilishly complicated variant record format that only a librarian could 
tolerate, with literally hundreds of (possibly repeating) fields and a 
concept of sub-fields... I would hate to have to implement a MARC parser.

Z39.50 and MARC are used by other large libraries around the World as 
well, so integrating them to Groo will be worthwhile.

Great link, Chuck!

Cheers,

Luciano