Terry’s Worklog

  • 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…

  • MarcEdit 6 Update (10/6/2014)

    I sent this note to the MarcEdit listserv late last night, early this morning, but forgot to post here.  Over the weekend, the Ohio State University Libraries hosted our second annual hackaton on the campus.  It’s been a great event, and this year, I had one of the early morning shifts (12 am-5 am) so…

  • MarcEdit 6.0 Update

    This update is coming a little later than I’d hoped, but I’ve been busying myself with a couple of projects that have been consuming some of my off hours.  Today’s update deals with a handful of issues, as well as provides some new functionality.  Changes: Bug Fix: Edit Field Function: Field recursion switch (/r) was…

  • MarcEdit 6 Update

    I’ve just posted a new update to MarcEdit.  In addition to fixing the following three issues: Check URL crashes when running…this has been fixed. Delimited Text Translator doesn’t show finishing message…fixed Debugging messagebox shows when processing mnemonic files not using MarcEdit’s documented format. In addition to these three bug fixes, MarcEdit is including a new…

  • MarcEdit’s MARCNext: JSON Object Viewer

    As I noted in my last post (https://blog.reeset.net/archives/1359), I’ll be adding a new area to the MarcEdit application called MARCNext.  This will be used to expose a number of research tools for users interested in working with BibFrame data.  In addition to the BibFrame Testbed, I’ll also be releasing a JSON Object Viewer.  The JSON…

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