MarcEdit 7.5 Updates

Current list of MarcEdit 7.5 general updates.  I’ll be walking through many of these changes in a webinar 1/15.

• Significant Changes:
  • Targeted Framework: .NET 5.0 (What’s new in .NET 5 | Microsoft Docs)
  • XML Wizard Changes
    • Support for Attribute-based mapping (extends previous entity based mapping)
  • Linked Data Components updated
  • SPARQL Components Updated
  • Linked Data Rules File Format Updates
    • Multiple rule blocks for the same field number allowed
    • Allows for redirection of URI to different fields (than one’s evaluated)
  • Delimited Text Translator
    • Ability to add custom mnemonic replacements (any {000$a} option allowed)
    • No longer a stand alone program
      • Now a part of main MarcEdit app
      • Command-Line options integrated into the MarcEdit Command-Line options
  • OCLC Updates
    • Shift to Metadata Search API (removes reliance on old search API)
    • New indexes available for query
      • Examples: catalog date, catalog org, etc.
  • UNIMARC Tools
    • Shifted to MARC Flavors
      • Allows users to add new translations
      • Configuration-based
    • New Chinese MARC 2 MARC21 translation added

• Incremental Changes
  • Upgrade Wizard updates
  • RDA Helper
    • 100$e updated to assess both the $e and $4
    • Updates related to updated RDA
    • Will assess only bibliographic records if bibliographic, authority, or holdings records included in the same file.
  • UI Updates
    • Updated Home Screen with added apps the main screen
    • Integration with the command-line tool
  • XML Editor
    • Record specific tools
      • Delete Block
    • XQuery Processing Option
  • Installer
    • Exposed the extensions to the install process
    • Embedded necessary dependencies (.NET) in the installer
    • Single Installer (32 or 64 bit)
  • Linked Data
    • New Collections
      • Wikidata for example