Category: MarcEdit

I’ll be bringing back one function to MarcEdit — the ability to assign extensions to specific functions in MarcEdit.  This was something that was available in MarcEdit 4.x — but I removed in the 5.x series.  After a few requests, I’ve brought it back.  However, it’s slightly different and I hope a little bit better.…

Since March 10, 2010 when MarcEdit included an automatic updater — the automated updating service has been pinged approximately 670,000 times.  Curious to see if service hits gets close to 700-725 K by the end of a 12 month period. –TR

For Christmas, I posted an updated version of MarcEdit.  It included a number of new features, the biggest being an update to the Merge Records tool.  This is the first part of a two part update process.  I’m hoping the second part of the update will be completed by New Years.  Anyway, the matching tool…

I’m not sure many people realize it, but there is a completely command-line driven version of MarcEdit.  This version provides an easy to use command-line tool that can be used with other cmd tools to pipe data or processes together.  One of the fundamental changes between the cmarcedit and marcedit GUI applications is that any…

I’ve finally gotten around to re-introducing a function that had been in the 4.x version of MarcEdit into the 5.x series.  The function re-introduced is the ability to edit subsets of records and then save the data back into the data file where the subset resides.  For example, say have a large set of records,…

So, MarcEdit has been updated. There are now two installers. A 32-bit installer and a 64-bit installer. These are found at: 32-bit Installer: MarcEdit_Setup.msi 64-bit Installer: MarcEdit_Setup64.msi If you have a 64-bit system, I recommend uninstalling MarcEdit and downloading the 64-bit installer. If you don’t, MarcEdit will update itself this time, using the 32-bit installer.…

I was perusing the download logs since I was in the process of rotating them, and found a couple of fun things for Sept.1 — Sept. 16, 2010: Number of unique visitors:  6,000+ Number of ping-backs to the update server:  19,359 Top 10 Geographical Areas for use: * United States * Australia * United Kingdom…

I was asked earlier this year if there was a way automatically generate check-digits in MarcEdit.  After looking at the problem, I decided to build a quick plug-in that could be used to generate such digits.   The plug-in currently supports the Codabar format.  The interface is fairly simple: To use, just install the plugin using…

This change was implemented in June 2010, but I wanted to draw users attention to it, especially since I just commented on this change via the MarcEdit listserv. As many people know, the state of Unicode usage in MARC, well, stinks.  While many systems utilize UTF-8 in their records, the UTF-8 notation that is used…

I posted a minor MarcEdit update this evening.  The changes were minimal, mostly cosmetic.  The main issues corrected were: Z39.50 batch file checking:  If the user file isn’t generated on install, the program would throw an error.  The program will now autogenerate that file if it is missing. Window cleanup:  When running the MarcEditor and…