Terry’s Worklog
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2015 OSU Commencement
This weekend, I got to partake in one of my favorite parts of being a faculty member — walking as part of the faculty processional for the 2015 Spring Commencement. For the past two years, I’ve been lucky enough to participate in the Spring Commencement at The Ohio State University — and while the weather can…
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MarcEdit 6 Update
I’ve posted an update. The change log is below: Enhancement: Dedup Function: Added support for multiple field evaluation. Enhancement: Dedup Function: Changed default control number field to 001|019$a Enhancement: Merge Function: Added 019 to the evaluation profile Enhancement: Updated the 001, 010$a, 020$a, 022$a, 035$a process so that it utilizes the same process as the…
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Building a better MarcEdit for Mac users
This all started with a conversation over twitter (https://twitter.com/_whitni/status/583603374320410626) about a week ago. A discussion about why the current version of MarcEdit is so fragile when being run on a Mac. The short answer has been that MarcEdit utilizes a cross platform toolset when building the UI which works well on Linux and Windows systems,…
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MarcEdit 101 Webinar Series
The MarcEdit 101 Webinar Series were created over the course of multiple months for the CARLI (http://www.carli.illinois.edu/) consortium in Spring 2015. In late March 2015, CARLI reached out to me and requested that these webinars be made available to the larger MarcEdit community, so if you find these webinars useful, please reach out and thank…
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MarcEdit 6.0 Update
List of changes below: ** Bug Fix: Delimited Text Translator: Constant data, when used on a field that doesn’t exist, is not applied. This has been corrected.** Bug Fix: Swap Field Function: Swapping control field data (fields below 010) using position + length syntax (example 35:3 to take 3 bytes, starting at position 35) not…
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Conditional Regular Expression Replacements using substitutions in MarcEdit
A question that comes up occasionally is the need to be able to conditionally add or replace a set of character data within a MARC Field. For example, consider this use case: I’d like to add a period to the end of a field (like say, the 650 field), but only under the following conditions:…
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MarcEdit 6 Update
A new version of MarcEdit has been made available. The update includes the following changes: Bug Fix: Export Tab Delimited Records: When working with control data, if a position is requested that doesn’t exist, the process crashes. This behavior has been changed so that a missing position results in a blank delimited field (as is…
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MarcEdit 6 Update
This MarcEdit update includes a couple fixes and an enhancement to one of the new validation components. Updates include: ** Bug Fix: Task Manager: When selecting the Edit Subfield function, once the delete subfield checkbox is selected and saved, you cannot reopen the task to edit. This has been corrected.** Bug Fix: Validate ISBNS: When…
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MarcEdit Update – Christmas Edition
Happy Christmas! It is my sincere wish that everyone reading this is/has had a wonderful time with family and good friends over the holiday season. This year marks the second year that I’ve been away from my family — my parents, my brothers, my in-laws — all still in Oregon. It’s the hardest time to…
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Working with SPARQL in MarcEdit
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on expanding the linking services that MarcEdit can work with in order to create identifiers for controlled terms and headings. One of the services that I’ve been experimenting with is NLM’s beta SPARQL endpoint for MESH headings. MESH has always been something that is a bit…
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