Category: MarcEdit

  • 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…

  • Conditional Regular Expression Replacements using substitutions in MarcEdit

    A question that comes up occasionally is the need to be able to conditionally add or replace a set of character data within a MARC Field.  For example, consider this use case: I’d like to add a period to the end of a field (like say, the 650 field), but only under the following conditions:…

  • MarcEdit 6 Update

    A new version of MarcEdit has been made available.  The update includes the following changes: Bug Fix: Export Tab Delimited Records: When working with control data, if a position is requested that doesn’t exist, the process crashes.  This behavior has been changed so that a missing position results in a blank delimited field (as is…

  • MarcEdit 6 Update

    This MarcEdit update includes a couple fixes and an enhancement to one of the new validation components.  Updates include: ** Bug Fix: Task Manager: When selecting the Edit Subfield function, once the delete subfield checkbox is selected and saved, you cannot reopen the task to edit.  This has been corrected.** Bug Fix: Validate ISBNS: When…