Category: MarcEdit

  • MarcEdit 7.2: Generating LCSH for Records

    For about the past year or so, I’ve been interested in working on a tool that would allow a user to take records that include an LC call number and generate LCSH headings for the records.  In theory, I’ve thought it was generally possible.  Library of Congress call numbers roughly correspond to parts of LCSH…

  • MarcEdit 7.5 Road Mapping

    This Thanksgiving, I’ve been spending my holiday wrapping up an update and planning the next large MarcEdit update — and as these plans start to take hold, I wanted to start giving folks an idea of where this is going. MarcEdit 7.5 MarcEdit 7.5 will represent the next big release of the MarcEdit 7.x branch. …

  • MarcEdit 7 Updates

    This version of MarcEdit 7 includes a wide range of updates.  I’ve documented them below. You can pick up the download at: https://marcedit.reeset.net/downloads Recover Settings from Backup If you use MarcEdit’s automated configuration back up tool (which creates backups of all local user files) — the way you restored from back up was a manual…

  • MarcEdit 7 Update

    I’ve worked on a significant update that is including a chance to the installer (significant changes) necessitating a change in version number to 7.2.x.  Changes below. Proxy Changes I’ve had some requests to allow proxy use with a handful of specific tools.  These have been added to the OAI Harvester, the Z39.50/SRU Tool, and the…

  • MarcEdit Plugin Development: Using late binding to reference functions

    In MarcEdit, plugins provide a way to extend the application’s functionality.  However, there are a couple of best practices that developers working with MarcEdit should generally follow if working with C#/.NET. Only create a Reference to the MacroInterfaces.dll.  I rarely change this file.  This is important.  I strongly name and sign all libraries, so any…

  • MarcEdit 7/3: Extracting MARC data into KML files

    I had a question posed to me the other day asking how someone might go about moving cartographic data found in MARC records into formats that might be usable by GIS systems.  Essentially, how could you get the position data found in records and put in a format useful for other people. MarcEdit doesn’t have…

  • UTF8 Normalizations and why I hate the 880 field in MARC21

    The last year, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how normalizations impact records in our various current an next-generation MARC systems (https://blog.reeset.net/archives/2532).  About a year ago, I embedded into MarcEdit the ability to enforce normalization due to many libraries starting to experience significant record loading issues due to requirements within their systems to…

  • MarcEdit 7: managing backups

    I had mentioned on twitter that an option exists in the MarcEdit preferences that automatically configures the tool to keep a 10 day backup of one’s configuration settings.  This led to a couple questions, like — what is being backed up, how do I turn this on, when was it added? This made me realize…

  • MarcEdit 7 Custom Report Writer

    New feature to MarcEdit 7/MarcEdit Mac 3 is a custom report writer.  I periodically get requests to generate one-off reports or add new specialty reports to MarcEdit.  Since MarcEdit is a general use tool — I general direct folks with very specialized needs to programming tools or help walk through some workflows to get the…

  • MarcEdit Custom Report Writer

    I periodically get requests for a variety of different types of custom, one-off reports for addition to MarcEdit.  Some of these can be accommodated in the current tooling, some of these can’t.  Often times, I encourage folks to look at the COM or API components as this provides full access to the records and allows…