Month: July 2005

  • Discovery blasts off with Kenny’s imagination

    As I’d posted earlier, Kenny (my oldest) has really been looking forward to this launch. He’s been watching all the videos, soaking in the NASA channel and pretty much learning more about shuttle program that I do. Anyway, I had to ride my bike in this morning — so I didn’t get to stay home…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 MARC=>MARCXML bug

    I’ve confirmed a bug in the MarcEngine that translates MARC data to MARCXML. The issue occurs when a subfield code is incorrectly added to the end of a field. I’ve corrected this issue and reposted the build to: marcedit50_2005_07_25.zip –Terry

  • OSU’s OpenURL resolver on Google

    Well, OSU has finally been able to get their openurl resolver added to Google’s Scholar. (click on the image for full size) Its been a long time coming — we originally tried working with Google on their pilot project before they had made the service more public…but we use Innovate Interface’s Webbridge and there had…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 Beta Refresh (July 25, 2005)

    Ahhhhh…..I’d introduced a bug in the last build that primarily affected European diacritics when moving between MARC-8 to UTF-8. The issue at hand was how to deal with dangling or incorrectly coded diacritics. In coding a solution, I accidently removed some code that moved combining diacritics. In MARC-8, diacritic placement for most European diacritics should…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 Z39.50 Client — first look

    Here’s some initial pictures of the Z39.50 client. 1) 2)

  • Bye, bye daddy

    What a kick. Its been a long time since my oldest son (4) started to learn how to talk. Kenny, my oldest, was an early talker — which we figured meant that he had a lot of different stuff say. Well, Nathan (10 months) has finally taken an interest in trying to express himself. He’s…

  • Digital Production on Demand

    Oregon State University has recently started what I’m hoping will be a very successful program — a Digitization on Demand service. The idea is to allow subject selects to select important materials in our collection for digitization and then we will make them available via a collection in our IR. Right now we are still…

  • Lots of climbing

    Well, after feeling utterly embarrassed by my weak climb up Mary’s Peak, I’ve decided to start a little training program to get myself into climbing shape. While I don’t have anything as steep as Mary’s Peak to train on regularly, I did find what would be a “mini” Mary’s Peak on SoapBox road — which…

  • UTF-8 to MARC-8 component updates (July 22, 2005)

    When I first started putting this version of MarcEdit together, I had a number of goals. Some of the most prominent were: 1) Improved UTF-8 support to remove adoption boundaries for libraries 2) Provide UTF-8 to MARC-8 support to allow for seamless movement of data between XML and MARC sources. The first was easy —…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 beta Refresh (July 21, 2005: 11:48 pst)

    Small tweek to the utftomarc converter. I hadn’t upgraded its handling of non-MARC-8 characters to the new W3C format — this has been done now. New download: marcedit50_2005_07_21b.zip Thanks, –Terry