Category: MarcEdit

This has been a long-time coming — making up countless hours and the generosity of a great number of people to test and provide feedback (not to mention the folks that crowd sourced the purchase of a Mac) — but MarcEdit’s Mac version is coming out of Preview and will be made available for download…

Last week, I posted an update that included the early implementation of the Validate Headings tool.  After a week of testing, feedback and refinement, I think that the tool now functions in a way that will be helpful to users.  So, let me describe how the tool works and what you can expect when the…

Over the last year, I’ve spent a good deal of time looking for ways to integrate many of the growing linked data services into MarcEdit.  These services, mainly revolving around vocabularies, provide some interesting opportunities for augmenting our existing MARC data, or enhancing local systems that make use of these particular vocabularies.  Examples like those…

MarcEdit Mac users, a new preview update has been made available.  This is getting pretty close to the first “official” version of the Mac version.  And for those that may have forgotten, the preview designation will be removed on Sept. 1, 2015. So what’s been done since the last update?  Well, I’ve pretty much completed…

I hadn’t planned on putting together an update for the Windows version of MarcEdit this week, but I’ve been working with someone putting the Linked Data tools through their paces and came across instances where some of the linked data services were not sending back valid XML data — and I wasn’t validating it.  So,…

With the last update, I made a few significant modifications to the Merge Records tool, and I wanted to provide a bit more information around how these changes may or may not affect users.  The changes can be broken down into two groups: User Defined Merge Field Support Multiple Record merge support Prior to MarcEdit…

This update will have four significant changes to three specific algorithms that are high use — so I wanted to give folks a heads up. 1) Merge Records — I’ve updated the process in two ways.      a) Users can now change the data in the dropdown box to a user-defined field/subfield combination.  At…

This was something I’d hoped to get into the last update, but didn’t get the time to test it; so I got it done now.  While at the first MarcEdit User Group meeting at ALA, there was a question about supporting 880 fields when exporting data via tab delimited format.  When you use the tool…

Logistics Time: 6:00 — 7:30 pm, Friday, June 26, 2015 Place: Marriott Marquis (map) Room: Pacific H, capacity: 30 Description: The MarcEdit user community is large and diverse and honestly, I get to meet far too few community members.  This meeting has been put together to give members of the community a chance to come together…