Category: MarcEdit

  • MarcEdit platform testing

    Just a couple of notes.  I’ve been spending quite a bit of time as of late testing the current MONO builds against the current MarcEdit codebase.  It looks like the latest stable version works just fine with the program, while the 3.0.x branch has a few rendering issues (not sure if they are mine or…

  • MarcEdit 5.9 Hotfix

    Sorry folks — apparently a hotfix Microsoft pushed out caused the setup tool I used to corrupt when working with 64-bit systems.  I’ve removed the hotfix and rebuilt both version (32 and 64) of the program and it looks like things are in good shape now. If you tried updating today and had trouble, give…

  • MarcEdit and Linux/Mac

    So, I’ve been having a few more questions asking about how to setup MarcEdit on Linux and a Mac.  In general, the program works very well on both platforms, but takes a bit of know-how to get them running.  This is primarily due to the Z39.50 components that I link to.  On Linux, installation is…

  • MarcEdit 5.9 update

    Here’s the final list of updates that I’ve been working on for this weekend: Enhancement: The MARCEngine will now allow users to embed mnemonics into a UTF8 encoded file and those mnemonics will be expanded into proper UTF8. This means that if you have a UTF8 file, and are working in the MarcEditor, you could…

  • MarcEdit – dealing with data in mixed character sets

    One of the hard and fast rules that MarcEdit has consistently enforced is that you are not allowed to mix character set streams.  What this means — if your data is in UTF8 — MarcEdit will not process mnemonic data.  There are some good reasons for this — but best being that mnemonics in MarcEdit…

  • ALA Midwinter Presentation

    I want to thank everyone that took the time to attend my Mid-Winter Presentation.  I really appreciated the feedback and the ideas.  It’s the days like today, where I get to share some ideas and get to talk to some interesting people, that makes me glad I work in higher education. Anyway — my presentation,…

  • MarcEdit 5.9 Update

    I have been working hard over the past week to close a couple of outstanding issues with the application.  The biggest of those issues is related to the Find/Find All function.  While making some changes a few weeks ago, it appears that I introduced a bug.  I’ve been working off-line with a few folks that…

  • MarcEdit 5.9 Update

    I know that there have been a lot of updates lately.  Hopefully, folks haven’t minded.  These updates have largely been due to folks really working out the RDA Helper, which has been nice.  This update is specific to the RDA Helper. Bug Fix: RDA Helper — When attempting to create the 380/1, the program looks…

  • MarcEdit 5.9 Update

    I’ve posted a new update that includes the following changes: 1) Bug Fix:  RDA Helper — Corrects the exception that occurs when trying to insert 33x, 38x fields when the highest field in the record is a lower than 329.  2) Enhancement:  RDA Helper — I added the ability to embed regular expressions into the…

  • MarcEdit 5.9 Update

    Lite-update — really just to correct a couple data problems.  One note, to enhance the Abbreviation substitution, I had to make the regular expressions a bit more complex. I’ll be keeping an eye on this part of the function to ensure that this doesn’t cause a performance bottleneck. Bug Fix:  RDA Helper — When doing…