Category: MarcEdit

  • Using MarcEdit to reuse (and maybe import) items in Dspace

    I’ve been thinking a little bit about some of the things that I use MarcEdit for and have been pushing some of this work off my desk to some of the staff in our technical services department.  We actually use MarcEdit quite a bit when it comes to sharing metadata from our Dspace instance with…

  • MarcEdit 5.x and OCLC Plug-in Update

    I took a couple of minutes and made a few changes to MarcEdit and the OCLC plug-in to provide some additional functionality to the plug-in framework and fix an error in the OCLC plug-in.  Changes: MarcEdit: One real change.  In the MacroInterfaces.dll (the library that allows the Scripting interface and the Plug-in interface access to…

  • OCLC’s Connexion XML — why, oh why?

    As I’d noted previously (https://blog.reeset.net/archives/479), some early testers had found that the Connexion plug-in that I’d written for MarcEdit stripped the 007.  I couldn’t originally figure out why — it’s just a control field and their syntax for control fields is pretty straightforward.  However, after looking at a few records with 007 records, I could…

  • OCLC Connexion Plug-in known issue

    Apparently folks are interested in this type of tool, as I had a few folks trying it.  One known issue and two changes coming in the next day or two.  Known Issue: For some reason, the internal OCLC metadata schema uses delimiters for the 007 field (even though its a control field).  My default template…

  • MarcEdit 5.1 update

    Lots of updates.  Of note: Inclusion of a plug-in manager Necessitated the inclusion of Zip functionality (thanks to the SharpDevelop project [http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/]) AppDomain manager (for loading and unloading code) Fixed Preview file error: Follow the code execution patches, windows has changed the format in which file names are passed to applications.  This corrects the problems…

  • MarcEdit 5.1 update set for Monday

    So much for an early night.  It’s 12:58 am — fortunately, all the code is working on my two test systems.  The new plug-in code is working, install is working — so all good.  Now I just need to run the program through its unit tests on my clean machine.  Since that takes about an…

  • MarcEdit Delimited Text Translator changes

    Quick enhancement to to the Delimited Text Translator.  The delimited text translator provides a pretty flexible flexible method for translating delimited data into MARC.  It gives you a GUI interface to profile (and save profiles) of how a delimited text file should be processed.  Of course, a number of strict rules have always had to…

  • MarcEdit Plug-ins: OCLC Connexion data plug-in example

    Ugh, I’m hoping that I can keep my eyes open long enough to finish getting this built, but thought I’d provide a little info on the plug-in framework that I’m setting up in MarcEdit.  First, a reason why I’m even doing this.  As time is going forward, I’m finding that I have a few ideas…

  • Belated MarcEdit update coming

    A quick note to let a few folks that are waiting know that I do have a MarcEdit update coming.  All the code has been updated and tested, its just getting a chance to build the install.  I’d hoped to do it this evening, but I’ve been busy working on other projects and just needed…

  • MarcEdit 5.1 Update

    So I’ve posted an update that fixes a few things.  Corrects the preview function (with one of the last windows service packs, it changed how some data is passed as command-line arguments.  This broke the preview option.  This should correct it). Select/Delete MARC records — fixed the Field searching (F#: mnemonic). Added the Plugin manager. …