Terry’s Worklog

  • 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

  • MarcEdit 6 – Changes to the Material Type Report

    One of the changes that will be present in MarcEdit 6 is an expansion of the Material Types Report.  Currently, the program provides an option to allow users to generate a report detailing the type of record as designated by the LDR and 008.  This allows users to get a quick snapshot of how the…

  • MarcEdit 6 Status Update

    Thought I’d give the folks that are interested an idea of where I am with the MarcEdit update.  In terms of new features, that is pretty much set at this point.  I have one feature request regarding conditional field editing by field position that I’m still mulling over, but otherwise, I’m pretty much finished.  The…

  • Preparing for MarcEdit 6.0

    This summer, I have been spending a lot of my free development preparing MarcEdit to make the transition from 5.9 to 6.0.  This will be a big update, and at the same time, and update that I’m not sure folks will necessarily see many of the changes.  But maybe that will be a good thing,…

  • OCLC WorldCat Metadata API Ruby Gem

    Since last December, I’ve had the opportunity to spend a good deal of time working with the OCLC WorldCat Metadata API.  The focus was primarily around kicking the tires, and then eventually developing some integration components with MarcEdit, as well as a C# library (https://github.com/reeset/oclc_api) for those that may have use of such things. However,…

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