Conversion of Bibliographic Data from CCF to Unimarc and Marc21 Format

In this era of global resource sharing and exchanging of bibliographic records from one system to another, is a widely prevalent practice. Instead of using a single standard to create bibliographic machine catalogue record, there has emerged more than twenty cataloguing codes and are being used as standards. This has caused variations in record formats and created problems in sharing of resources among the institutes locally and globally and transfer of data from one system to another. To avoid this problem keeping in mind that countries such as India and those in South-east Asia are using the CCF as a standard for creating bibliographic records, this paper describes ways for converting bibliographic records into UNIMARC and MARC21. In addition, it describes what problems may be encountered during the exchange of records and how they may be overcome.