Category: MarcEdit

  • MarcEdit OSX Public Preview 1

    It’s with a little trepidation that I’m formally making the first Public Preview of the MarcEdit OSX version available for download and use.  In fact, as of today, this version is now *the* OSX download available on the downloads page.  I will no longer be building the old code-base for use on OSX. When I…

  • MarcEdit 6.1 Update

    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…

  • MarcEdit User-Group Meeting @ALA, June 26, 2015

    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…

  • MarcEdit Mac Port Update

    Having made one preview available for evaluation and feedback, I’ve been diligently working on updating the tool and working on new functionality.  This includes moving onto developing a new notification service so that preview users know when new builds are available and providing a new preferences window to enable support for changing applicable preferences currently…

  • Enhancements to the MarcEdit Replace Function — making complex conditional edits easy

    MarcEdit provides lots of different ways for users to edit their data.  However, one use case that comes up often is the ability to perform an action on a field or fields based on the presence of data within another field.  While you can currently do this in MarcEdit by using tools to isolate the…

  • MarcEdit 6 update

    I’ve been working hard on making a few changes to a couple of the MarcEdit internal components to improve the porting work.  To that end, I’ve posted an update that targets improvements to the Deduping and the Merging tools. Updates: Update: Dedup tool — improves the handling of qualified data in the 020, 022, and…

  • MarcEdit 6 Update

    I’ve posted an update.  The change log is below: Enhancement: Dedup Function: Added support for multiple field evaluation.  Enhancement: Dedup Function: Changed default control number field to 001|019$a Enhancement: Merge Function: Added 019 to the evaluation profile Enhancement: Updated the 001, 010$a, 020$a, 022$a, 035$a process so that it utilizes the same process as the…

  • 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…

  • MarcEdit 6.0 Update

    List of changes below: ** Bug Fix: Delimited Text Translator: Constant data, when used on a field that doesn’t exist, is not applied.  This has been corrected.** Bug Fix: Swap Field Function: Swapping control field data (fields below 010) using position + length syntax (example 35:3 to take 3 bytes, starting at position 35) not…