Category: MarcEdit

  • Harvesting UMich OAI records with MarcEdit

    I’ve had a few folks ask about the the procedure would be for a user wanting to harvest the UMich OAI records using MarcEdit.  Well, there are two workflows that can be followed depending on what you want to do.  You can harvest the OAI data and translate it directly to MARC or you can…

  • MarcEdit 5.1 update

    Posted a new version of MarcEdit.  The major changes: OAI harvester revisionsRevisions are oriented around the addition of fall-over code, some error correction, etc. marc8toutf8 processing updateUpdated the processing library to handle encoding errors a bit more gracefully. You can get the download from:  http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/software/development/MarcEdit51_Setup.exe   –TR

  • MARC21 University of Michigan Google Digital Books Records (records for testing/viewing)

    I was playing with MarcEdit’s OAI harvester, making a few changes to fix a problem that had been discovered, as well as add some fall-over code that allows the harvester to continue processing (or at least, attempt to continue processing) when the OAI server breaks the connection (generally through timeout).  To test, I decided to…

  • 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…