Month: February 2006

  • Truth in Advertising?

    I just love this…not to diss Western Oregon University, but I visited their home page and the title of the page just struck me as being funny.  It says: “Western Oregon University — Steadily emerging as a leading comprehensive public liberal arts college.” Below, the page notes that they are celebrating 150 years as a…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 Update (Language File Editor)

    Most folks know that MarcEdit 5.0 allows users to localize the application — and in some respects, it does this very differently then most applications. Most applications utilize a resource file to store strings/resources utilized by the application. MarcEdit 5.0 is different — MarcEdit 5.0 utilizes an xml-based language file (or files) and a custom…

  • Google starts new digitization program with the U.S. National Archives

    Announced today — Google is entering into a pilot program with the U.S. National Archives to digitize all video content.  See: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/history-deserves-best.html –Terry

  • MarcEdit 5.0 update

    To deal with servers that provide either http headers in invalid formats or servers that use proxies with expired certificates, I ended up having make a few adjustments to the Verify URL utility.  To get an indepth explaination of what changes were made, please see: Dealing with expired security certificates: https://blog.reeset.net/archives/166 Dealing with invalid http…

  • Dealing with malformed http headers

    If you have a link checker, you invariably want to just read page headers.  Well, in .NET, they enforce a very strict interpretation of the HTTP header standard.  Unfortunately, a great number of servers (Innovative Interface’s ILS for one), don’t follow the output rules, so .NET’s HTTPWebRequest object will throw a webexception when requesting headers…

  • Dealing with expired certificates and .NET’s HTTPWebRequest object

    Some folks that had tried using the Verify URL utility had notified me that it wasn’t reporting a response status when attempting to query materials through an ezproxy url.  The problem it appears, was that the servers in question had either expired security certificates or certificates that were not issued by a trusted site (i.e.,…

  • OSU digital production since Julyish

    Thank goodness for students.  OSU started their Dspace/Digitization program somewhat in earnest this summer.  And a message from our system admin regarding archival disc usage got me wondering how much scanning actually had been done by the students over the past 6-9 months.  Not counting digitized images (of which, there was ~15,000), the Digital Production…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 Url Checker

    This is one of those tools that I’m going to be working on a bit more (I want to setup a thread pool to speed up the processing), but for now, it works ok. The process allows you to specify within a MARC record what http elements you’d like to check. You check all (and…

  • Two examples working with MarcEdit 5.0’s new COM

    MarcBreaker Example: Dim objMARC Set objMARC = CreateObject(“MARCEngine5.MARC21”) ‘These files are not provided. You will need to use your own test files. This example is only to show syntax. lret = objMARC.MarcFile(“C:\Documents and Settings\reeset\Desktop\cyrillic.mrc”, “C:\Documents and Settings\reeset\Desktop\cyrillic.mrk”) msgbox “here” The above is the general MarcBreaker function.  This will work with either MARC-8 or the UTF-8 characterset. …

  • MarcEdit 5.0 Update

    MarcEdit 5.0 beta Update Ok — I’ve posted a new version of MarcEdit.  This update includes the following major changes: Z39.50 changes — I’ve updated the interface in the single search mode.  When clicking edit settings, the program would continually call he click event (frustrating). Z39.50 changes — I’ve modified the master db a bit…