Day: February 22, 2006

  • 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…