Month: December 2012

  • MarcEdit 5.9 update

    [Please note, it appears that the OSU network is a little wonky right now — so if for some reason you have trouble downloading the update, try again at a later period.  Unfortunately, due to the holidays, the people.oregonstate.edu domain will continue to be up and down until after Christmas.] This MarcEdit update spans a…

  • MarcEdit: Validating data from the command-line

    One of the tools that MarcEdit has built-in into it is a light-weight validator.  For a long time, there has been an Easter Egg of sorts that allowed folks to access the validator via the command-line, if they knew the syntax.  It was something that I primarily used for my own purposes and hadn’t expected…

  • MarcEdit API Addition: BatchZ3950SearchEx

    In early December 2012, I added a new API to the MarcEdit API that allowed a single Z39.50 Search to provide the results back as an array of Objects (rather than just a big string dump).  You can read more about that at: https://blog.reeset.net/archives/1133.  I’ve now added the compliment function for the BatchZ39.50 function: BatchZ3950SearchEx. …

  • Excel Quirks when working with the Delimited Text Translator

    Every now and again, I get messages on the list noting that when trying to translate Excel files with longer fields or with numerical data — MarcEdit’s extracted data doesn’t always reflect what’s in the file.  It can be confusing, and understanding the why of it all probably isn’t something folks want/need to understand —…

  • MarcEdit 5.8 Update posted

    Sorry this one came in late — I had planned on posting this one on Sunday but wasn’t able to get it finished due to an error in the build process.  However, those issues have been resolved and the update has been posted.  This update includes new feature and a few enhancements: [New Feature] Direct…

  • MarcEdit 5.8 API Addition: Z3950SearchEx

    MarcEdit has two COM and .NET API for providing Z39.50 searching — one API provides access to a Single Query and one a batch query: [Z3950Search & BatchZ3950Search].  Both of these options deposit returned data into a file.  However, I’ve been asked if the single search can also provide an array of objects.  COM doesn’t…