Category: MarcEdit

  • MarcEdit Paging approach

    I’m just about to the point where I have this work completed and will be ready to send it out for a few people for testing.  However, I want to provide some feedback so folks have an idea how this will work (even if you’re not that interested). Paging: The idea here is that loading…

  • MarcEdit design question/advice

    I asked this question on the MarcEdit Listserv, but will post it here as well.  Below, is the message and images of the wireframes that are mentioned.  If you have an opinion — feel free to join the list and let me know, or if you like, you can contact me directly at: terry.reese@oregonstate.edu  …

  • MarcEdit Listserv

    So, the good folks at George Mason University have offered to host a MarcEdit Listserv.  If you are interested, you can find it here: http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?SL1=MARCEDIT-L&H=MAIL04.GMU.EDU This list would be a great place for folks looking to ask questions.  I’m one of many moderators to the list, so if a question is asked, I (or someone)…

  • 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…