Terry’s Worklog

  • 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…

  • MarcEdit’s Research Toolkit – MARCNext

    While developing MarcEdit 6, one of the areas that I spent a significant amount of time working on was the MarcEdit Research Toolkit.  The Research Toolkit is an easter egg of sorts — it’s a set of tools and utilities that I’ve developed to support my own personal research interests around library metadata — specifically,…

  • MarcEdit 6 Update

    So I missed one — I made some changes to how MarcEdit loads data into the MarcEditor to improve performance, especially on newer equipment, and introduced a bug.  When making multiple global updates, the program may (probably) will lose track of the last page of records.  This slipped through my unit tests because the program…

  • MarcEdit 6 Update

    Latest update has been posted.  The following has been fixed: Bug Fix: Delimited Text Translator — The Edit LDR, Load Template, and AutoGenerate buttons were not responding.  This has been corrected. Bug Fix: MARCCompare — when processing data with improperly formatted mnemonic data, the program doesn’t correctly trap the generated formatting error. Bug Fix: Edit…

  • MarcEdit 6 Update is available

    After spending the last 3 months of work — I’ve posted the latest and greatest version of MarcEdit; MarcEdit 6.0.  This represents a significant change on a number of fronts — first and foremost, a lot of code has been reformatted to provide better support for non-Windows systems.  For the first time, a MarcEdit packaged…

  • MarcEdit 6: Reintroduction of MARCCompare/RobertCompare

    What is MARCCompare/RobertCompare? Very rarely do I create programs for individuals to meet very specific user needs.  I’ve always taken the approach with MarcEdit that tools should be generalizable, and not tied to a specific individual or project.  RobertCompare was different.  The tool was created to support Mr.Robert (Bob) Ellett’s (ALA Tribute, Link to Dissertation…

  • Code4Lib Article: Opening the Door: A First Look at the OCLC WorldCat Metadata API

    For those interested in some code and feedback on experiences using the OCLC Metadata API, you can find my notes here: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/9863   –TR

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