Day: July 22, 2005

  • 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 —…