Category: MarcEdit

  • 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…

  • Managing Task Groups in MarcEdit 7/3

    About a month ago, I started asking the community what kinds of enhancements that they would like to see as I started working on planning for MarcEdit 7.1.x and 3.1.x — and one of the comments, related to task and task management, seemed like such a good idea that I decided to go ahead and…

  • MarcEdit 7: Transliteration Updates

    Hi MarcEdit folks, I just wanted to point out that with the latest update, I’ve included a number of new features — but I wanted to highlight one specifically — transliterations. While working on MarcEdit 7, one of the requests that I wasn’t able to address was transliterations. I’ve been chatting with OCLC about potentially…

  • Hidden costs of development

    A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to speak to a group of researchers and software developers.  These were folks that, through their research, had developed a set of tools or services and were interested in making the software available either free or open source, and were trying to get a handle on the…

  • I wonder if there should be cake….2019 and planning for MarcEdit @ 20

    This past year has been a bit of a blur for me. Professionally, I’ve been tied up in some large projects at work that we are just starting to see significant benefits from; I’ve just come out of a year-long project to update MarcEdit; completed the second edition of a book I co-author (https://www.alastore.ala.org/content/building-digital-libraries-second-edition); and…

  • MarcEdit 7/MarcEdit 3.x Mac–when editing data requires the use of NOT matches

    This kind of question has come up on the marcedit listserv a number of times over the past month.  Users have been asking the following kinds of questions: I’d like to replace data in the Call Number and add [x] data, but only if the 020 does not have electronic resources in the text. I’d…

  • MarcEdit 7 Update: XML Profile/OAI Harvester Changes

    Updated:  BePress reached out on twitter pointing to a status page created this afternoon (May 8th): https://www.bepress.com/status/  I’m willing to assuming good intentions here, and trust that this will be a temporary condition.  I’ll also trust that in the future, they will do a better job notifying their customers prior to blacklisting services that they…

  • Linked Data Updates in MarcEdit 7

    If you use MarcEdit’s linked data tooling (or are interested in using it) — a couple notes about updates planned for this week.  I’ve been making some targeted changes to improve performance, expanding the number of defined collections, and have been looking at the rules file to see if I could shift it from XML…