Category: MarcEdit

  • 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…

  • MarcEdit Update – Christmas Edition

    Happy Christmas! It is my sincere wish that everyone reading this is/has had a wonderful time with family and good friends over the holiday season. This year marks the second year that I’ve been away from my family — my parents, my brothers, my in-laws — all still in Oregon. It’s the hardest time to…

  • Working with SPARQL in MarcEdit

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on expanding the linking services that MarcEdit can work with in order to create identifiers for controlled terms and headings.  One of the services that I’ve been experimenting with is NLM’s beta SPARQL endpoint for MESH headings.  MESH has always been something that is a bit…

  • MarcEdit Automatic Field Translation Plug-in

    While experimenting with doing automatic language translation using the Microsoft Translation API, I got a couple of questions from users asking if this same process could be applied to doing automatic field translation to create localized searching indexes of subject terms.  The specific use case proposed was the generation of a single 653 that included…

  • MarcEdit LibHub Plug-in

    As libraries begin to join and participate in systems to test Bibframe principles, my hope is that when possible, I can provide support through MarcEdit to provide these communities a conduit to simplify the publishing of information into those systems.  The first of these test systems is the Libhub Initiative, and working with Eric Miller and…

  • MarcEdit Sept. 2014 server log snapshot

    Here’s a snapshot of the server log data as reported through Awstats for the marcedit.reeset.net subdomain.  Server log stats for Sept. 2014: Logged MarcEdit uses: ~190,000 Unique Users: ~17,000 Bandwidth Used: ~14 GB Top 10 Countries by Bandwidth: United States Canada China India Australia Great Britain Mexico Italy Spain Germany Countries by Use (with at…

  • MarcEdit 6 Update (10/6/2014)

    I sent this note to the MarcEdit listserv late last night, early this morning, but forgot to post here.  Over the weekend, the Ohio State University Libraries hosted our second annual hackaton on the campus.  It’s been a great event, and this year, I had one of the early morning shifts (12 am-5 am) so…

  • MarcEdit 6.0 Update

    This update is coming a little later than I’d hoped, but I’ve been busying myself with a couple of projects that have been consuming some of my off hours.  Today’s update deals with a handful of issues, as well as provides some new functionality.  Changes: Bug Fix: Edit Field Function: Field recursion switch (/r) was…