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I posted an update to MarcEdit on Thursday.  The scope of the update is limited — a new function in the MarcEditor (copy field), enhancements to the validator, etc.  Nothing earth shaking.  I’m still working on a few larger initiatives — but wanted to get a few bug fixes/convenience functions out to people. As always,…

I just picked up a new bike.  It’s a Felt Z70.  Love this bike.  Can’t wait to take it on my first big ride.  Here’s a picture. –TR

What started out as an idea to help out some colleagues stranded in state by travel restrictions will become a reality.  Kyle Banerjee and I hatched our plan in late March — since really no-one from the west coast was able to attend code4lib in providence (and won’t next year as well) — we figured…

What a fantastic movie.  I love Pixar movies because I know that I can take the kids and they will enjoy it and there’s a pretty good chance that I’ll like it too.  However, after last year’s Wall-E (which I loved), I had pretty high expectations going into the theatre this afternoon when my wife…

So over the last weekend (Sat — Mon., May 16-18), I was at Timberline Lodge near Portland, Oregon for the annual Timberline Acquisitions Conference (9th annual anyway).  The conference is one that I would generally not attend (what do I know about acquisitions other than you buy things) — but this year I had been…

So, I’ve been a little neglectful keeping up with the blogging due to a number of other outside activities.  Over the past couple of months, I’ve done a good deal of writing and publishing.  In order, I’ve had the following articles published: LRTS: Reese, T. (2009, April). Automated Metadata Harvesting: Low-Barrier MARC Record Generation from…

Just posted a small update to MarcEdit 5.1.  The biggest change is in the Z39.50 client — adding Unicode retrival to the Z39.50 batch tool.  However, I’ve also included changes to the Validator, expanded the delete field function, etc. You can find it at: MarcEdit_Setup.msi –TR

I wrote this up some time ago, but I still occasionally get questions about it (in fact, I got one today, hence this note).  The Project Gutenberg (PG) provides its metadata for download in RDF format on it’s website at: http://www.gutenberg.org/feeds/catalog.rdf.zip.  I wrote an XSLT transformation for this data (fairly basic) when I was visiting…

My wife got me for this Christmas.  I love it.   –TR

In LibraryFind 0.9, the UI has been enhanced to include a number of small niceties (things that have been flowing into the 0.8.x branch — but are enhanced in 0.9).  Things that you will find in LibraryFind 0.9 is Cover Art (which can be pulled from Open Library, Google or Library Thing [Open Library is…