Category: MarcEdit

  • 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…

  • 2015 MarcEdit usage

    I’ve been putting together some information to help a few non-catalogers understand what MarcEdit is an how much it get’s used around the world.  Couple of fun stats for 2015 based only on usage information from users that make use of the automated update tool. 2015 Usage Information: ~3 million unique program executions (times the…

  • MarcEdit Update: Windows/Linux

    The past 3 weeks, I’ve been doing a lot of work on MarcEdit.  These initial changes impact just the windows and linux version of MarcEdit.  I’ll be taking some time tomorrow and Wed. to update the Mac version.  The current changes are as follows: 6.2.190* Enhancement: Language files have been updated* Enhancement: Command-line tool: -task…

  • MarcEdit: Running Additional Validation processes from the command-line

    MarcEdit’s command-line function has always had the ability to run validation tasks against the MarcEdit rules file.  However, the program hasn’t included access to the cleaning functions of the validator.  As of the last update, this has changed.  If the —validate command is invoked without a rules file defined, the program will validate the structure…

  • MarcEdit: Running Tasks via the command-line

    MarcEdit’s task list functionality has made doing repetitive tasks in MarcEdit a fairly simple process.  But one limitation has always been that the tasks must be run from within MarcEdit.  Well, that limitation has been lifted.  As of the last update, a new option has been added to the command-line tool: —task.  When run with…

  • MarcEdit Linked Data Platform–custom linking indexes

    Over the past year and half, I’ve been working with MarcEdit to provide the ability for users interested in doing URI entification against various known vocabularies, as well as adding these vocabularies into an authority processing workflow.  The processes work well for the handful (15-20) defined indexes that MarcEdit currently queries.  But long-term, libraries may…

  • MarcEdit Update

    Last night, I posted an update squashing a couple bugs and adding some new features.  Here’s the change log: * Bug Fix: Merge Records Tool: If the user defined field is a title, the merge doesn’t process correctly.* Bug Fix: Z39.50 Batch Processing: If the source server provides data in UTF8, characters from multi-byte languages…

  • 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…

  • MarcEdit Update

    Yesterday, I posted a significant update to the Windows/Linux builds and a maintenance update to the Mac build that includes a lot of prep work to get it ready to roll in a number of changes that I’ll hopefully complete this week.  Unfortunately, I’ve been doing a lot of travelling, which means that my access…