Terry’s Worklog
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MarcEdit Updates Posted
Change log below: Mac Updates: 2.3.12 ************************************************** ** 2.3.12 ************************************************** * Update: Alma Integration Updates: New Create Holdings Record Template * Update: Integration Framework refresh: corrects issues where folks were getting undefined function errors. * Update: the #xx field syntax will be available in the Edit field and Edit indicator functions. This means users…
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MarcEdit 7 Upgrade Advisor
This post is related to the: MarcEdit and the Windows XP Sunsetting conversation I’ll be updating this periodically, but I wanted to make this available now. One of the biggest changes related to MarcEdit 7, is that I’m interested in building against an updated version of the .NET framework. Tentatively, I’m looking to build against the…
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MarcEdit and the Windows XP Sunsetting conversation
I’m again thinking about the need to seriously think about Windows XP and MarcEdit’s continued support for the nearly 20 year old OS. What is pushing this again is the integration work I’ve been doing with Alma. None of this work will be available to XP users, in part, because ExLibris (and rightly) uses…
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How do I know I’m running in 32 bit mode (if I’m on a 64-bit system) and when (mostly never) would I want to
As a rule, you shouldn’t be running in 32-bit mode when working on a 64-bit system. In fact, MarcEdit is compiled in a way so that the program will run automatically at the appropriate bit depth for your operating system. So, if you have a 32-bit system, MarcEdit will automatically be configured to run in…
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MarcEdit Updates
I’ve been working on a few updates the past couple weeks, the most time consuming of these being updates related to Alma. Here’s the full list: Windows/Linux: SourceURL:http://marcedit.reeset.net/software/update.txt 6.2.501 * Enhancement: OpenRefine Import/Export Formatting Updates [tested on 2.7 rc 1 & 2] * Enhancement: MarcEditor — Right-to-Left and Left-to-Right language improvements when reading in the…
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MarcEditor Changes and Right-to-left displays
So, this was a tough one. MarcEdit has a right-to-left data entry mode that was created primary for users that are creating bibliographic records primarily in a right to left language. But what happens when you are mixing data in a record from left-to-right languages like English and Right-to-left languages, like Hebrew. Well, in the…
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MarcEdit and Alma Integration: Working with holdings data
Ok Alma folks, I’ve been thinking about a way to integrate holdings editing into the Alma integration work with MarcEdit. Alma handles holdings via MFHDs, but honestly, the process for getting to holdings data seems a little quirky to me. Let me explain. When working with bibliographic data, the workflow to extract records for edit…
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Truncating a field by a # of words in MarcEdit
This question came up on the listserv, and I thought that it might be generically useful that other folks might find it interesting. Here’s the question: I’d like to limit the length of the 520 summary fields to a maximum of 100 words and adding the punctuation “…” at the end. Anyone have a good…
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MarcEdit Update Notes
MarcEdit Update: All Versions Over the past several weeks, I’ve been working on a wide range of updates related to MarcEdit. Some of these updates have dealt with how MarcEdit handles interactions with other systems, some of these updates have dealt with integrating the new bibframe processing into the toolkit, and some of these updates…
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MarcEdit Update (all versions); post-mortem analysis of the marcedit.reeset.net website (continued) downtime
*** Update: as of 11:10 AM EST, 3/6/2017 — it appears all resources are back online and available. Much thanks to Darryl, a helpful support agent that found whatever magic setting that was keeping the DNS from refreshing. *** What a long weekend this has been. If you are a MarcEdit user, you are probably aware…
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