Month: January 2006

  • MarcEdit 5.0 refresh

    I fixed two issues this morning: When using the Extracted Selected Records or Delete Selected records utility — if the display field criteria appears in the record multiple times (i.e., multiple 090 fields), then the field count is skewed and the export will grab the wrong records.  This has been corrected. When openning a large…

  • Some people….

    I was riding my bike home this evening and I’m not quite sure what gets into some people.  When I first started riding between Independence and Corvallis 3 years ago, I use to get a lot of kids in their big truck honking or yelling at me on my ride — particularly in the winter…

  • ETDs and automatic MARC generation

    Since Sept., OSU has started accepting ETDs in electronic format.  The materials are stored in Dspace — and this has been a bit of a boon for us.  I’ve spent a little time this week putting together an xslt stylesheet that can be used, in conjunction with MarcEdit 5.0’s Metadata harvester, to harvest the metadata…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 Refresh (Jan. 13, 2006)

    How exciting…I hope folks don’t mind the regularity of the updates recently but I’ve been having a great deal of fun lately scrubbing the code and putting the final touches on the application.  Its made for some longer nights this week but I definitely think that its been worth it.I’ll update this message tomorrow morning and can get the formal…

  • Rivers still rising

    So I’ve taken to keeping an eye on the Luckiamute River near Suver, OR (http://ahps2.wrh.noaa.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=pqr&gage=suvo3&view=1,1,1,1,1,1).  Hwy 99 crosses this river in a low spot and I’ve been watching this river go up and up and up.  Fortunately, I don’t think I’m going to see this cover the road.  It might flood just about everything else…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 Update

    Alrighty, I’ve posted the update that corrected the two earlier noted bugs.  The first correction had to do with translating UTF-8 encoded MARC records into MARCXML and then back into MARC-8 — this was an easy fix and should be completed.  I’ve verified it against the 102 test records that had been set for review. …

  • MarcEdit 5.0 bug report fyi

    Just an fyi — I’d received some test files today for a small set of records where some diacritics were being mangled when translating data from MARCXML to MARC in MARC-8.  I investigated, and there is a very narrow bug in the application that I’ve corrected and will post as an update this evening.  The problem only…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 components updates

    New updates already…I was playing with MarcEdit this afternoon and run into a couple of small bugs that I squashed this afternoon.  I made the following changes: MarcEditor Printing:  Oops, I made a change last night and broke the MarcEditor printing.  To make is so that the program could print fonts correctly, I’d modified the…

  • Cycling in the rain

    Its still storming and raining here in Oregon.  Today was great.  This morning, I road into work (25 miles) and battled with wind all the way in.  Fortunately, this is what I wanted today.  However, coming home — the wind was gusting up to 35 mph with constant 13-15 mph wind…I was fast.  25 miles…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 Update

    Alright, I’ve been doing a little bit of interface work on the 5.0 MarcEditor to make editing 006/008 fields easier for users.  So, I’ve made the following changes: 006/008 Editing Windows.  These are found under the Edit menu in the MarcEditor.  It will edit an existing field or generate a new field.   A couple of…