Category: MarcEdit

  • MarcEdit 7 Editor Updates

    Over the past 3 months, I’ve been embarking on a significant effort to redesign one of the fundamental workflows in the MarcEdit software — that being the way manual and global edits are handled.  Currently In all versions of MarcEdit, global edits and manual edits are handled differently within the Editor.  This is largely due…

  • MarcEdit 7/3: Updating MarcEditor file processing

    This year, the biggest project that I’ve been undertaking is a re-write of how MarcEdit’s MarcEditor handles and tracks changes in files.  In MarcEdit (since the very first version) — the tool has separated edits into two workflows. 1. Edits made manually 2. Edits made using the global tools Some resources, like Report generation and…

  • MarcEdit 7: Watch Folder–part 2

    While continuing to add the finishing touches to the Watch Folders — I realized I needed to provide a couple of additional contextual notes.  Watch Folder Behavior C# provides a couple of different methods to make this work.  Probably the most straight forward is what is called a FileSystemWatcher event that can be tagged to…

  • MarcEdit 7: Watch Folders

    I’ve been spending a lot of time working on a new feature for MarcEdit 7 — Watch Folders.  The idea behind this concept is that users may have files that they get regularly from vendors, staff, etc. that are part of a specific workflow.  Rather than having to open each file into MarcEdit in order…

  • MarcEdit 7: ISBD Normalization Experimentation

    Since the early 2000’s, when libraries started moving traditional cataloging data into and out of MARC, the presence and necessity of ISBD punctuation has been a topic of much debate.  Generally, if you have to take data from MARC to XML, ISBD punctuation is a scourge, one of many past sins that tied MARC a…

  • MarcEdit 3/7 Changelog

    Change log for updates posted 8/25/2018 — those that are windows only are marked with (*) New MarcEngine options Replace smart quotes or typesetters marks with “dumb” characters.  The characters addressed: \u2013, en dash \u2014, em dash \u2015, horizontal bar \u2017, double low line \u2018, left single quotation mark \u2019, right single quotation mark \u201a,…

  • Looking for feedback on a new MarcEdit feature

    * Posted to the listserv, but putting it here since the community is larger than the list. Before I go too far down the rabbit hole, I wanted to toss an idea out and see what folks thought.  I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how MarcEdit could be modified to cut some steps out…

  • MarcEdit 7/3: Build Links Updates (non-MARC format support)

    I’ve had a few folks lately asking if I could expand MarcEdit’s build links tooling beyond MARC data.  The idea here is that: a lot of library data isn’t in marc there are a lot of different workflows where linked data starts to make its way into the process So, with this update, I’ve tried…

  • MarcEdit 7/3 OCLC Integration Bug Fixes

    MarcEdit 7.0.60+/3.0.30+’s OCLC Integration is currently broken, and it took me a little longer than I’d hoped to fix it.  Unfortunately, the work needed to support the changes were pretty extensive on the Mac-side due to either a framework change or a change in how OCLC’s API was returning it’s data (I honestly can’t tell…

  • MarcEdit 7 Usage (1/2018-7/2018)

    With 8 months under my belt, I figured it was time to take a look at the current information related to MarcEdit 7’s usage and uptake.  When  I took a look in Feb., the current download numbers were somewhere around 13-15,000 (I think).  As of today, there are approximately 72,000 unique users making use of…