Bibliographic data
From Just Solve the File Format Problem
Formats specific to the storage and transmission of bibliographic data, finding aids and reference lists.
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Bibliography formats
- BIBFRAME (framework under development for bibliographic classes and properties)
- BibJSON format for bibliographic data transmission [1]
- BibTeX (.bib)
- Citation File Format (CFF)
- Dublin Core (.dcx)
- EAD (Encoded Archival Data, for archival finding aids)
- EndNote Library (.enl)
- ISO 2709 (format used in MARC)
- MADS Metadata Authority files in XML (MARC21) [2]
- MODS [3]
- MPEG21-DIDL
- ONIX XML-based bibliographic format used by publishers
- OPAC format used over Z39.50; appends library holdings information to a Marc record
- ProCite
- RefMan (.ris) (Bibliographic plain text format - can be used to import/export citations to proprietary EndNote/ReferenceManager or non-proprietary Zotero)
- SUTRS Simple Unstructured Text Representation, a loosely defined format for transmission of bibliographic data over Z39.50
Library cataloguing
- Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR)
- MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging)
- Resource Description and Access (RDA)
Metaformats
Tools and applications
- Zotero (research and legal citation tool)