Category: MarcEdit

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

I’ve posted a new MarcEdit 7 update. This includes the following changes: Verify URLs — there is an option to manage # of threads used. This is the first time this tool will utilize a thread pool to provide faster query. I wouldn’t recommend using more than 10 threads (3-5 is a good number) as…

(Posting this on my blog as well) I have a necessary MarcEdit update planned for tonight, as it fixes a problem introduced in the last update that I don’t believe anyone is seeing (I didn’t) until you start working with really large files. I found it yesterday and was up till around 3:30 this morning…

Every year, I like to take a couple of minutes and pull my log files to get a quick and dirty look at who might be making use of MarcEdit.  This year, I was also interested in how quickly MarcEdit 7 is being picked up, as the application install base is large and diverse and…