Terry’s Worklog

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • MarcEdit 6 Update Posted

    A new update has been posted.  The changes are noted below: Enhancement: Installation changes — for administrators, the program will now allow for quite installations and an option to prevent users from enabling automated updates.  Some IT admins have been asking for this for a while.  The installation program will take an command-line option: autoupdate=no,…

  • MarcEdit Automatic Field Translation Plug-in

    While experimenting with doing automatic language translation using the Microsoft Translation API, I got a couple of questions from users asking if this same process could be applied to doing automatic field translation to create localized searching indexes of subject terms.  The specific use case proposed was the generation of a single 653 that included…

  • MarcEdit 6 Update

    Happy Thanksgiving to those celebrating.  Rather than over indulging in food, my family and I spent our day relaxing and enjoying some down time together.  After everyone went to bed, I had a little free time and decided to wrap up the update I’ve been working on.  This update includes the following changes: Language File…

  • MarcEdit LibHub Plug-in

    As libraries begin to join and participate in systems to test Bibframe principles, my hope is that when possible, I can provide support through MarcEdit to provide these communities a conduit to simplify the publishing of information into those systems.  The first of these test systems is the Libhub Initiative, and working with Eric Miller and…

  • Automated Language Translation using Microsoft’s Translation Services

    We hear the refrain over and over — we live in a global community.  Socially, politically, economically — the ubiquity of the internet and free/cheap communications has definitely changed the world that we live in.  For software developers, this shift has definitely been felt as well.  My primary domain tends to focus around software built…

  • MarcEdit Sept. 2014 server log snapshot

    Here’s a snapshot of the server log data as reported through Awstats for the marcedit.reeset.net subdomain.  Server log stats for Sept. 2014: Logged MarcEdit uses: ~190,000 Unique Users: ~17,000 Bandwidth Used: ~14 GB Top 10 Countries by Bandwidth: United States Canada China India Australia Great Britain Mexico Italy Spain Germany Countries by Use (with at…

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