Category: MarcEdit

  • MarcEdit 5.0 Update Feb. 13th

    Forgot to get this up because I’ve been playing at the code4lib conference, but I did update a new version that corrected some display issues in the Z39.50 client and updated the console program so that the full file paths could be omitted (i.e., current directory would be assumed). As always, MarcEdit50_Setup.exe –Terry

  • MarcEdit 5.0 refresh

    Fixed a couple of bugs.  The one that folks would most likely run across was a bug in the swap fields function.  If you used the find text option, a match and swap would never occur. Other fixes, I’ve added some code to make sharing the application across a network share easier. As always, the…

  • MARBI Proposal 2006-04

    So the following was sent out on the MARC Unicode list: Proposal 2006-04, “Technique for conversion of Unicode to MARC-8,” was approved at the MARBI meeting on January 21 with the following additions and changes.1. It was agreed that a proposal for lossless representation of unmappable characters using numeric character references will be brought to…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 minor update

    I posted a new update to MarcEdit 5.0 last night relating to how the application handles invalid MARC records. Generally, most MARC tools just spit the records out or stop processing at the offending record. Well, in MarcEdit 4.6 there was a MARC “healer” function that would essentially attempt to evaluate how the record was…

  • Gary Smith (of OCLC’s) response to MARBI Proposal 2006-04, Technique for conversion of Unicode to MARC-8

    I was glad to see Gary Smith from OCLC finally post OCLC’s official response regarding the current MARBI proposal regarding the techniques for conversion of Unicode to MARC-8.  For those that haven’t see the proposal, the general gist of the document is that the current recommendation is to have non-transformable characters dropped, replaced by a fill character.  Personally,…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 refresh

    I fixed two issues this morning: When using the Extracted Selected Records or Delete Selected records utility — if the display field criteria appears in the record multiple times (i.e., multiple 090 fields), then the field count is skewed and the export will grab the wrong records.  This has been corrected. When openning a large…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 Refresh (Jan. 13, 2006)

    How exciting…I hope folks don’t mind the regularity of the updates recently but I’ve been having a great deal of fun lately scrubbing the code and putting the final touches on the application.  Its made for some longer nights this week but I definitely think that its been worth it.I’ll update this message tomorrow morning and can get the formal…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 Update

    Alrighty, I’ve posted the update that corrected the two earlier noted bugs.  The first correction had to do with translating UTF-8 encoded MARC records into MARCXML and then back into MARC-8 — this was an easy fix and should be completed.  I’ve verified it against the 102 test records that had been set for review. …

  • MarcEdit 5.0 bug report fyi

    Just an fyi — I’d received some test files today for a small set of records where some diacritics were being mangled when translating data from MARCXML to MARC in MARC-8.  I investigated, and there is a very narrow bug in the application that I’ve corrected and will post as an update this evening.  The problem only…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 components updates

    New updates already…I was playing with MarcEdit this afternoon and run into a couple of small bugs that I squashed this afternoon.  I made the following changes: MarcEditor Printing:  Oops, I made a change last night and broke the MarcEditor printing.  To make is so that the program could print fonts correctly, I’d modified the…