English: In library science, the card catalog would contain a record such as this one for a particular book. As bibliographic information went online, these were replaced by databases and were searchable electronically.
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This image shows some kind of simple table that could be converted to a wikitable. Storing tables as images makes it harder to change (update, translate, ...) them. Wikitables also help making sure to be consistent in font and size.