Terry’s Worklog

  • 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,…

  • Development of an A-Z list and components around OCLC API

    I wrote a guest post for OCLC’s Developer’s Network.  You can find it here: http://www.oclc.org/developer/news/2014/guest-post-by-terry-reese-my-az-list-ruby-gem-and-demo-application.en.html –tr

  • Regular Expression Recursive Replacement in MarcEdit

    One of the new functions in MarcEdit is the inclusion of a Field Edit Data function.  For the most part, batch edits on field data has been handled primarily via regular expressions using the traditional replace function.  For example, if I had the following field: =999  \\$zdata1$ydata2 And I wanted to swap the subfield order,…

  • MarcEdit 5.9 Update, part II

    After posting the update last night, a user noted that the Delimited Text Translators 008 generation utilized some older defaults that were causing some validation issues.  So, I’ve posted a limited update to correct this specific problem. If you have automatic updating turned on, MarcEdit will prompt you automatically.  Otherwise, you can download from: 32-bit:…

  • MarcEdit 5.9 Update

    New MarcEdit has been posted.  Here’s the notes: RDA Helper: Enhancement — Added option to determine if the 040$e is added, in accordance with the PCC Hybrid records documentation. RDA Helper: Enhancement — Updated the GMD generation to take into account additional field data in an attempt to account for accompanying data (rather than alternative…

  • MarcEdit 5.9 Update – the birthday edition

    I’m happy to report that I finally completed work on the latest MarcEdit update.  This change provides updates specifically to the RDA Helper and MarcEdit’s implementation/interaction with the OCLC WorldCat Metadata API.  The full list of changes can be found below.  RDA Helper: Modified the way that the 260/264 conversion occurs, to bring it more…

  • MarcEdit 5.9 – OCLC Integration: Working with Local Bibliographic Data Records

    Since OCLC made their Metadata APIs available, I’ve spent a good deal of time putting them through their paces and looking for use cases that these particular API might solve, and if/how MarcEdit might be an appropriate platform to take advantage of some of this new functionality.  Looking over the new Metadata API, it’s pretty…

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