Category: MarcEdit

  • 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…

  • MarcEdit 5.9 Update

    This is a light update that includes three enhancements and a couple of bug fixes: Enhancement:  Task Manager — I’ve included the ability to add a task to a task.  This allows you to chain tasks together, essentially allowing for the creation of a library of tasks.  You can read more information about this function…

  • MarcEdit 5.9 – Linking Task Lists

    One of the new enhancements to make it into MarcEdit 5.9 is the ability to link task lists.  Task lists are essentially “recorded” macros that link together a set of global actions to be performed on a file.  You can learn more about MarcEdit’s Task Automation tool here:   One of the most recent requests…

  • MarcEdit 5.9 update

    [Please note, it appears that the OSU network is a little wonky right now — so if for some reason you have trouble downloading the update, try again at a later period.  Unfortunately, due to the holidays, the people.oregonstate.edu domain will continue to be up and down until after Christmas.] This MarcEdit update spans a…