Terry’s Worklog

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • MarcEdit Mac Update

    It seems like I’ve been making a lot of progress wrapping up some of the last major features missing from the Mac version of MarcEdit.  The previous update introduced support for custom/user defined fonts and font sizes which I hope went a long way towards solving accessibility issues.  Today’s update brings plugin support to MarcEdit…

  • MarcEdit Update: All Versions

    All versions have been updated.  For specific information about workstream work, please see: MarcEdit Workstreams: MacOS and Windows/Linux MarcEdit Mac Changelog: ************************************************* ** 2.2.35 ************************************************* * Bug Fix: Delimited Text Translator: The 3rd delimiter wasn’t being set reliably. This should be corrected. * Enhancement: Accessibility: Users can now change the font and font sizes in the…

  • Fonts, Font-sizes and the MacOS

    So, one of the questions I’ve occasionally been getting from Mac users is that they would really like the ability to shift the font and font sizes of the programs’ interface.  If you’ve used the Windows version of MarcEdit, this has been available for some time, but I’ve not put it into the Mac version…

  • MarcEdit KBart Plugin

    Last year, I had the opportunity to present at NASIG, and one of the questions that came up was related to the KBart format and if MarcEdit could generate it.  I’ll be honest, I’d never heard of KBart and this was the first time it had come up.  Well, fast forward a few months and…

  • MarcEdit Workstreams: MacOS and Windows/Linux

    Over the past couple of months, I’ve had some interesting questions that have been leading me to going back and relooking at how a handful of things work within MarcEdit.  To that end, I’m hoping to complete the following two workstreams this weekend. MacOS Two of the features most often asked for at this point…

  • MarcEdit MacOS Updates

    This past weekend, I spent a good deal of time getting the MacOS version of MarcEdit synchronized with the Windows and Linux builds.  In addition to the updates, there is a significant change to the program that needs to be noted as well.  First, let’s start with the changelog.  The following changes were made in…

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