Terry’s Worklog

  • MarcEdit Delete Field by Position documentation

    I was working through the code and found an option that quite honestly, I didn’t even know existed.  Since I’m creating new documentation for MarcEdit 7, I wanted to pin this somewhere so I wouldn’t forget again. A number of times on the list, folks will ask if they can delete say the second field…

  • MarcEdit 7 weekly build

    Issues completed as part of the MarcEdit 7 weekly update  Couple of things to highlight.  * I’ve integrated a check and download of a Unicode Font into the Startup Wizard.  This will enable users to retrieve and install the Noto Fonts set into a private fonts collection for use by the application. * Clustering tools…

  • Saxon.NET and local file paths with special characters and spaces

    I thought I’d post this here in case this can help other folks.  One of the parsers that I like to use is Saxon.Net, but within the .net platform at least, it has problems doing XSLT or XQuery transformations when the files in question have paths with special characters or spaces (or if they reference…

  • MarcEdit 7: Continued Task Improvement; Part 2

    Last week, I discussed some of the work I was doing to continue to evaluate how Task processing will work in MarcEdit 7.  To do some of this work, I’ve been working with a set of outlier data who’s performance in MarcEdit 6.3 left much to be desired.  You can read about the testing and…

  • MarcEdit 7: Continued Task Refinements

    Now that MarcEdit 7 is available for alpha testers, I’ve been getting back some feedback on the new task processing.  Some of this feedback relates to a couple of errors showing up in tasks that request user interaction…other feedback is related to the tasks themselves and continued performance improvements. In this implementation, one of the…

  • MarcEdit 7 Downloads Page is live

    I’ve made the MarcEdit 7 Alpha/Beta downloads page live.  Please remember, this is not finished software.  Things will break — but if you are interested in testing and providing feedback as I work towards the Production Release in Nov. 2017, please see: http://marcedit.reeset.net/marcedit-7-alphabeta-downloads-page. –tr

  • ASIS&T Midwest Regional Panel

    I had the opportunity to speak on a panel with a group of fantastic library people.  Here’s the panel description: https://www.asist.org/evolving-landscapes-in-academic-and-public-libraries/ I believe that all the presentation slides will be available soon from the site, but I’ve posted mine to slideshare at: https://www.slideshare.net/reese_terry/rejoining-the-information-access-landscape –tr

  • MarcEdit 7: Harvest OAI UI changes

    In evaluating the UI in the MarcEditor, the UI for the OAI Harvester seemed to be a little crowded to me.  So, I’m breaking it up a bit.  As of right now, the new updated UI will be the following: tr

  • MarcEdit 7: Add/Delete Field Changes

    I’m starting to think about the global editing functions in the MarcEditor — and one of the first things I’m trying to do is start to flesh out a few confusing options related to the interface.  This is the first update in thinking about these kinds of changes – The idea here is to make…

  • MarcEdit 7: Startup Wizard

    One of the aspects of MarcEdit that I’ve been trying to think a lot about over the past year, is how to make it easier for users to know which configuration settings are important, and which ones are not.  This is the problem of writing a library metadata application that is MARC agnostic.  There are…

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