Category: MarcEdit

  • 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…

  • Installing MarcEdit on Linux–a How To

    I posted a YouTube video at: Installing MarcEdit on Linux That shows the process for installing MarcEdit on Linux using Mono.  While this demo shows how to install MarcEdit 5.5 (which will drop around April) — the general install process is the same. I’ll be doing the same thing for a Mac install demo sometime…

  • Changes to the automatic updater

    So, one of the things that I’ve been trying to do for a while is make it easier for users to update MarcEdit.  To that end, I introduced an automatic updater that allowed users to be prompted and automatically download new updates for their machines.  And with those changes, things were good…well, for me anyway,…

  • MarcEdit Update

    I’ve made a few tweaks to the classification service.  The big update was a bug fix that was fields proceeding the inserted classification to be deleted.  Obviously, that’s a problem.  This has been corrected.  Additionally, I’ve added an option to remove using the subfield z (in the 035, 776, 020 and 022) as part of…

  • MarcEdit Update

    Posted a MarcEdit update that includes the Batch Classification service.  This service utilizes OCLC’s Classify API to generate call numbers for records.  I originally noted the work on this tool while I was at code4lib here.  The original tool was pretty simple — it was created to examine a record, extract a control number, and…

  • OCLC’s Classify in C#

    During Code4Lib, I spent a little time playing with OCLC’s Classify service (http://oclc.org/developer/services/classify).  I’ve been working on adding a couple of functions into MarcEdit that will allow folks to leverage some of the OCLC web services.   Using OCLC’s Classify, I’ve been working on an experimental tool that would allow you to do batch classification of…

  • MarcEdit Update

    Update was posted Feb. 7th.  Here’s what’s being worked on: MarcEditor changes, specifically: When saving .mrk files, the change in the Edit control from the textbox to a custom control shifted the newline character from the system default (on windows \r\n) to simply using a carriage return (\r).  This will be corrected so that it…

  • Evolution of MarcEdit

    This weekend, I started working on a writing project — kind of a MarcEdit instructional, and in pulling together some information about the evolution of MarcEdit, I found something interesting — I still have functioning versions of MarcEdit from version 1-present.  Knowing what the program looks like now, I found it interesting (and slightly embarrassing)…