Terry’s Worklog

  • MarcEdit 7.5 Update

    ChangeLog: https://marcedit.reeset.net/software/update75.txt Highlights Preview Changes One of the most requested features over the years has been the ability to preview changes prior to running them.  As of 7.5.8 – a new preview option has been added to many of the global editing tools in the MarcEditor.  Currently, you will find the preview option attached to…

  • How do I generate MARC authority records from the Homosaurus vocabulary?

    Step by step instructions here: https://youtu.be/FJsdQI3pZPQ Ok, so last week, I got an interesting question on the listserv where a user asked specifically about generating MARC records for use in one’s ILS system from a JSONLD vocabulary.  In this case, the vocabulary in question as Homosaurus (Homosaurus Vocabulary Site) – and the questioner was specifically…

  • MarcEdit: State of the Community *2020-2021

    * Sigh – original title said 2019-2020.  Obviously, this is for this past year (Jan. 2020-Dec. 31, 2020).   Per usual, I wanted to take a couple minutes and look at the state of the MarcEdit project. This is something that I try to do once a year to gauge the current health of the community,…

  • MarcEdit 7.3.x/7.5.x (beta) Updates

    Versions are available at: https://marcedit.reeset.net/downloads Information about the changes: 7.3.10 Change Log: https://marcedit.reeset.net/software/update7.txt 7.5.0 Change Log: https://marcedit.reeset.net/software/update75.txt If you are using 7.x – this will prompt as normal for update. 7.5.x is the beta build, please be aware I expect to be releasing updates to this build weekly and also expect to find some issues.…

  • MarcEdit 7.5.x/MacOS 3.5.x Timelines

    I sent this to the MarcEdit Listserv to provide info about my thoughts around timelines related to the beta and release.  Here’s the info. Dear All, As we are getting close to Feb. 1 (when I’ll make the 7.5 beta build available for testing) – I wanted to provide information about the update process going…

  • MarcEdit 7.5 Change/Bug Fix list

    * Updated; 1/20 Change: Allow OS to manage supported supported Security Protocol types. Change: Remove com.sun dependency related to dns and httpserver Change: Changed AppData Path Change: First install automatically imports settings from MarcEdit 7.0-2.x Change: Field Count – simplify UI (consolidate elements) Change: 008 Windows — update help urls to oclc Change: Generate FAST…

  • MarcEdit 7.5 Updates

    Current list of MarcEdit 7.5 general updates.  I’ll be walking through many of these changes in a webinar 1/15. Significant Changes: Targeted Framework: .NET 5.0 (What’s new in .NET 5 | Microsoft Docs) XML Wizard Changes Support for Attribute-based mapping (extends previous entity based mapping) Linked Data Components updated SPARQL Components Updated Linked Data Rules…

  • MarcEdit 7.5 Update Status

    I’m planning to start making testing versions of the new MarcEdit instance available around the first of the year broadly, to a handful of testers in mid-Dec.  The translation from .NET 4.7.2 to .NET 5 was more significant than I would have thought – and includes a number of swapped default values – so hunting…

  • Changes to System.Diagnostics.Process in .NET Core

    In .NET Core, one of the changes that caught me by surprise is the change related to starting processes.  In the .NET framework – you can open a web site, file, etc. just by using the following:\ System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(path); However, in .NET Core – this won’t work.  When trying to open a file, the process will…

  • MarcEdit 7.5/MarcEdit Mac 3.5 Work

    Every year, around this time, I try to dedicate significant time to address any large project work that may have been percolating around MarcEdit.  This year will be no different.  Over the past 4 months, I’ve been working on moving MarcEdit away from the .NET 4.7.2 Framework to .NET Core 3.1.  There a lot of…

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