Day: January 21, 2006

  • CONTENTdm and EAD records

    For those of you out there that use CONTENTdm — OSU has been starting to experiement with putting EAD records into CONTENTdm and utilizing the software as our temporary (maybe longterm temporary) solution to making EAD records available electronically to our patrons.  As CONTENTdm 4.0 users know, this version offers the ability to index many…

  • What happened to the wireless revolution

    I’ve a wireless junkie so I’ve been waiting for the so called wireless revolution…always on, always there.  Well, someone must have forgotten to tell most airports.  Generally, I plan my travel arrangements through airports that offer free wireless to passengers simply because I like being able to pass the time doing a little work while…

  • Openning the floodgates

    It was only a matter of time…My 16 month old, Nathan, has taken his time hitting a number of milestones, partly because we have let him. Well, since November I guess, my wife and I have pretty much been insisting that he start to try and talk to us — either using hand signs or…

  • Going to Midwinter….

    What a drive into the Portland Airport this morning.  Geez, this morning we got something like an 1/4 inch of rain so the highways heading out of Independence was flooded all the way to I-5 (not unpassible, but lots of high water).  Then, I get to Portland and because of 2 accidents, am only able…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 minor update

    I posted a new update to MarcEdit 5.0 last night relating to how the application handles invalid MARC records. Generally, most MARC tools just spit the records out or stop processing at the offending record. Well, in MarcEdit 4.6 there was a MARC “healer” function that would essentially attempt to evaluate how the record was…