Category: MarcEdit

MarcEdit’s Validate Headings tool is getting a refresh to add a few missing elements.  Two new features are being added to the tool — the ability to automatically correct variants when they are detected, and the ability to automatically generate preliminary authority records for personal (100/700) records.  The new interface looks like:   Example of…

After about a month of working with the headings validation tool, I’m ready to start adding a few enhancements to provide some automated headings corrections.  The first change to be implemented will be automatic correction of headings where the preferred heading is different from the in-use headings.  This will be implemented as an optional element. …

So, this update is a bit of a biggie.  If you are a Mac user, the program officially moves out of the Preview and into release.  If you are a Mac user, this version brings the following changes: **************************** ** 1.1.25 ChangeLog **************************** Bug Fix: MarcEditor — changes may not be retained after save if…

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…