Category: MarcEdit

  • Proof of concept redux

    So I’ve been spending my time making a few changes to my proof of concept cataloging application using my phone.  A couple of things that I’ve learned along the way: No matter how good the OCR is, I’m not sure it ever gets to a point where you can just happily scan a catalog card…

  • MarcEdit 5.7 update posted

    The latest MarcEdit update has been baked and pushed out the door.  If you are running a current version of MarcEdit, you can expect to see the program prompt you for update (unless you’ve disabled that functionality).  Otherwise, you can find the update at: http://people.oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/downloads.html.  Originally, this update was planned to be primarily cosmetic, with…

  • MARCEngine MARCXML translation changes coming this weekend

    One of the benefits of moving the MARCXML=>MARC translation algorithm away from XSLT to an inline function is the ability to provide some sanity checking beyond the simple XML validation.  One of the issues that I see periodically when working with XML conversions is the need to code data truncation into my XSLT stylesheets.  For…

  • Turning your phones into Cataloging clients

    Over the past few years, I’ve owned a number of different smart phones.  I’ve had an IPhone, Android (the first in fact) and now a Windows 7 Phone.  I have admit, they are all great, especially when I compare them to my old Blackberry.  What you can do with each of these devices is quite…

  • Merry Christmas–MarcEdit 5.7 Available

    Merry Christmas everyone.  I hope that everyone has a safe, and happy holidays with their family and their friends.  In what has become a bit of a holiday tradition, I’m releasing an update to MarcEdit, MarcEdit 5.7.  Yep, this shifts from version number from 5.6 to 5.7, and there are some pretty good reasons why…

  • MarcEdit 5.6’s XSLT Registry

    MarcEdit’s XML Functions tool gives users the ability to create and register new XSLT functions with the MarcEdit Application.  However, one of the questions that occasionally comes up is how do I share or find new XSLT’s that may work with MarcEdit.  When a user installs MarcEdit, I provide as part of the installation package…

  • MarcEdit 5.6 available

    MarcEdit 5.6 has been posted for download.  If you are currently running MarcEdit via Windows and have the automatic updating function enabled, you’ll be notified of the update automatically.  The current changes to the application are as follows: Bug Fix: Swap fields tool — when moving data from a variable field to a control field…

  • Dealing with recursive case replacement in MarcEdit

    **This post deals with functionality officially made available May 30, 2011. ** As more and more of our libraries outsource their bibliographic description, metadata records that would previously have been considered unusable are quietly making their ways into our library’s ILS systems.  There are a number of common issues that show up, some that tend…

  • Running MarcEdit natively on a Mac

    I posted a video to youtube that demonstrates how you can run MarcEdit through MONO natively on a Mac.  You can find it here:

  • MarcEdit 5.5 Update

    I’ve posted the MarcEdit 5.5 update.  This is a major update in that it updates the program from .NET 3 to .NET 4.  Here’s the full list of changes: –TR Changes for this version: 1) Bug fix to the OCLC Classify service (when a local OCLC number is present, depending on the prefix, it can…