Terry’s Worklog

  • MarcEdit Update (Windows/Linux)

    I’ve posted a new set of updates.  The initial set is for Windows and Linux.  I’ll be posting Mac updates later this week.  Here’s the list of changes: Behavior Change — Windows/Linux: Intellisense turned off by default (this is the box that shows up when you start to type a diacritic) for new installs. As…

  • MarcEdit PreUpdate Notes

    Three significant changes will be coming as part of MarcEdit’s Sunday update.  These impact the MARCEngine, Regular Expression Processing, and the Linked Data Platform. MARCEngine Changes: In May 2016, I had to make some changes to the MARCEngine to remove some of the convenience functions that allowed mnemonic processing to occur on UTF8 data or…

  • MarcEdit Mac Update — OCLC Integrations

    Happy belated Labor Day (to those in the US) and happy Tuesday to everyone else.  On my off day Monday, I did some walking (with the new puppy), a little bit of yard work, and some coding.  Over the past week, I’ve been putting the plumbing into the Mac version of MarcEdit to allow the…

  • MarcEdit Update Notes

    Posted Sept. 1, this update resolves a couple issues.  Particularly: Windows/Linux: * Bug Fix: Custom Field Sorting: Fields without the sort field may drop the LDR.  This has been corrected.* Bug Fix: OCLC Integration: regression introduced with the engine changes when dealing with diacritics.  This has been corrected.* Bug Fix: MSI Installer: AUTOUPDATE switch wasn’t…

  • MarcEdit Mac Update–Inclusion of Console Mode

    One of the gaps in the Mac version of MarcEdit has been the lack of a console mode.  This update should correct that.  However, a couple things about how his works… 1) Mac applications are bundles, so in order to run the console program you need to run against the application bundle.  What does this…

  • 2015 MarcEdit usage

    I’ve been putting together some information to help a few non-catalogers understand what MarcEdit is an how much it get’s used around the world.  Couple of fun stats for 2015 based only on usage information from users that make use of the automated update tool. 2015 Usage Information: ~3 million unique program executions (times the…

  • MarcEdit Update: Windows/Linux

    The past 3 weeks, I’ve been doing a lot of work on MarcEdit.  These initial changes impact just the windows and linux version of MarcEdit.  I’ll be taking some time tomorrow and Wed. to update the Mac version.  The current changes are as follows: 6.2.190* Enhancement: Language files have been updated* Enhancement: Command-line tool: -task…

  • MarcEdit: Running Additional Validation processes from the command-line

    MarcEdit’s command-line function has always had the ability to run validation tasks against the MarcEdit rules file.  However, the program hasn’t included access to the cleaning functions of the validator.  As of the last update, this has changed.  If the —validate command is invoked without a rules file defined, the program will validate the structure…

  • MarcEdit: Running Tasks via the command-line

    MarcEdit’s task list functionality has made doing repetitive tasks in MarcEdit a fairly simple process.  But one limitation has always been that the tasks must be run from within MarcEdit.  Well, that limitation has been lifted.  As of the last update, a new option has been added to the command-line tool: —task.  When run with…

  • MarcEdit Linked Data Platform–custom linking indexes

    Over the past year and half, I’ve been working with MarcEdit to provide the ability for users interested in doing URI entification against various known vocabularies, as well as adding these vocabularies into an authority processing workflow.  The processes work well for the handful (15-20) defined indexes that MarcEdit currently queries.  But long-term, libraries may…

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