Category: MarcEdit

  • A forgotten MarcEdit Subfield Editing function 🙂

    I was asked the other day at AALL (American Association of Law Libraries) if MarcEdit could be used to move specific data from one field and replace the data currently present in another.  So, an example — the ability to move data from a 260$c to the 008 position 7:4.  You can actually, though its…

  • MarcEdit Z39.50 on ‘Nix

    I need to send this out to the 15 or so folks that have agreed to be my first guinea pigs testing out a MarcEdit build on ‘Nix and Mac systems (and btw, Mac UI rendering isn’t good.  That’s not surprising because Mono’s UI changes tend to show up correctly on ‘Nix first, then Mac…

  • MarcEdit testing on ‘Nix (updates)

    So far so good.  I’ve had a great response and am starting to get back feedback that I’ll be incorporating into work that I plan on doing this weekend to fix a few ‘Nix issues.  But I think that when the next MarcEdit release is posted — I’ll for the first time be including information…

  • Looking for testers interested in running MarcEdit on ‘Nix

    I’ve started formally looking for guinea pigs that want to give this a whirl.  Installation has been simplified, everything works (save the Z39.50 functionality) — so if you would like to try running MarcEdit on either a Linux or Mac (though, running it on a mac may be dodgy — I know that mono development…

  • Supporting Right to Left languages in MarcEdit (part 3)

    I’ve been spending a bit of time over the past few weeks doing some travelling but also working on this problem in MarcEdit.  When I left it last, I was pretty close to having a solution — the only thing that had been still a little wonky was dealing with data elements that were primarily…

  • Right to left rendering Part II

    So, a couple of a additional notes on this.  I got some feedback from my latest attempt and while I’m closer, there are still some significant issues.  Also, my testers and I weren’t seeing the same things on the screen when testing so I thought I’d follow up on two aspects of working with Right…

  • Supporting Right to Left languages in MarcEdit

    Life is a funny thing.  I’ve never been someone with a distinct desire to understand the intricacies of language or characters.  That’s stuff that my wife enjoys — she’s the linguist while I’ve barely mastered English. 🙂 Yet, here I am, thanks to MarcEdit, having to become much more familiar with character sets and language…

  • OLC MarcEdit Workshop

    So, last week (May 20th), I had the opportunity to meet with about 56ish folks in Columbus, OH to talk about MarcEdit.  I don’t give MarcEdit workshops very often, though I have always enjoyed doing it when I have.  (The main reason I don’t is the time — I simply don’t have the time to…

  • MarcEdit version number change coming

    Just an FYI — I’m a big believer in incremental builds — hence the reason why MarcEdit’s build number changes so slowly.  For example, my current development build number is: 5.1.3393.37654 (actually built today).  I personally am not fond of software that make large leaps between build numbers, but I also realize that my incremental…

  • MarcEdit 5.1 update

    Couple of quick changes.  Delete Fields — you can delete multiple fields using “xâ€? syntax, where the ‘x’ is no longer case sensitive.  For example: a) 900 — deletes the 900 field b) 90x — deletes fields 900, 901, 902, 903, etc. c) 9xX — deletes fields 900, 901, 902, 903…910, 911…920, 921, etc. Originally,…