Tag: MarcEdit

  • MarcEdit 7.6.x: Consolidating help

    Over the past 4 months, I’ve been working on the MarcEdit code-base. It’s large, and I’ve been needing to pay down some technical debt — including — making some significant changes to support breaking changes in .NET 6. At this point, the work is done, and a number of new versions will be showing up…

  • MarcEdit 7 Z39.50/SRU Client Wireframes

    One of the appalling discoveries when taking a closer look at the MarcEdit 6 codebase, was the presence of 3(!) Z39.50 clients (all using slightly different codebases.  This happened because of the ILS integration, the direct Z39.50 Database editing, and the actual Z39.50 client.  In the Mac version, these clients are all the same thing…

  • MarcEdit’s new Logging Features

    Over the years, I’ve periodically gotten requests for a much more robust logger in MarcEdit.  Currently, when the tool performs a global change, it reports the number of changes made to the user.  However, a handful of folks have been wanting much more.  Ideally, they’d like to have a log of every change the application…

  • MarcEdit Update Notes

    Posted Sept. 1, this update resolves a couple issues.  Particularly: Windows/Linux: * Bug Fix: Custom Field Sorting: Fields without the sort field may drop the LDR.  This has been corrected.* Bug Fix: OCLC Integration: regression introduced with the engine changes when dealing with diacritics.  This has been corrected.* Bug Fix: MSI Installer: AUTOUPDATE switch wasn’t…

  • MarcEdit Mac Update–Inclusion of Console Mode

    One of the gaps in the Mac version of MarcEdit has been the lack of a console mode.  This update should correct that.  However, a couple things about how his works… 1) Mac applications are bundles, so in order to run the console program you need to run against the application bundle.  What does this…

  • MarcEdit Alma Integration

    Over the past month, I’ve been working with ExLibris (thank you to Ori Miller at ExLibris) and Boston College (thanks to Margaret Wolfe) to provide direct integration between MarcEdit and Alma via the Alma Apis.  Presently, the integration allows users to search, create, and update records.  Setup is pretty easy (I think) and once you…

  • Building a better MarcEdit for Mac users

    This all started with a conversation over twitter (https://twitter.com/_whitni/status/583603374320410626) about a week ago.  A discussion about why the current version of MarcEdit is so fragile when being run on a Mac.  The short answer has been that MarcEdit utilizes a cross platform toolset when building the UI which works well on Linux and Windows systems,…

  • MarcEdit 101 Webinar Series

    The MarcEdit 101 Webinar Series were created over the course of multiple months for the CARLI (http://www.carli.illinois.edu/) consortium in Spring 2015.  In late March 2015, CARLI reached out to me and requested that these webinars be made available to the larger MarcEdit community, so if you find these webinars useful, please reach out and thank…

  • Working with SPARQL in MarcEdit

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on expanding the linking services that MarcEdit can work with in order to create identifiers for controlled terms and headings.  One of the services that I’ve been experimenting with is NLM’s beta SPARQL endpoint for MESH headings.  MESH has always been something that is a bit…

  • MarcEdit Start Page Changes

    **A number of members of the MarcEdit community provided feedback while working on these changes.  Specifically, Heidi Frank (NYU) and Jim Taylor (of http://jtdata.com) for contributing their time and some artistic skill in creating some of the new functional icons. In addition to a handful of bug fixes and enhancements, one of the big changes…