Scope and Use of CCF
Following are the scope and use of CCF:
- To permit the exchange of records between groups of information agencies, including libraries, abstracting and indexing services, referral systems and other kinds of information agencies.
- To permit the use of a single set of computer programs to manipulate records received from various informations agencies regardless of their internal record-creation practices.
- To serve as the basis of format for an agency's own bibliographic or factual database, by providing a list of useful data elements. To assist the development of individual systems, Unesco has published 'Implementation Notes' for users of the Common Communication Formats (CCF).