Terry’s Worklog
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Moving domains
If you are reading this, then the redirections that I’ve temporarily put into place are working. I’m currently in the process of moving all of my content off of the oregonstate.edu domain and onto my new personal domain at: reeset.net. This means everything from my blog: https://blog.reeset.net to MarcEdit: http://marcedit.reeset.net. It’s been a slow process,…
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Moving to Ohio
If you haven’t heard by now, I’m leaving Oregon State University. After 13 years at the Oregon State University Libraries, my family and I are pulling up stakes and heading to Columbus, Ohio to take the position of Head, Digital Initiatives at The Ohio State University Libraries. It has been a fantastic 13 years, filled…
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MarcEdit – dealing with data in mixed character sets
One of the hard and fast rules that MarcEdit has consistently enforced is that you are not allowed to mix character set streams. What this means — if your data is in UTF8 — MarcEdit will not process mnemonic data. There are some good reasons for this — but best being that mnemonics in MarcEdit…
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ALA Midwinter Presentation
I want to thank everyone that took the time to attend my Mid-Winter Presentation. I really appreciated the feedback and the ideas. It’s the days like today, where I get to share some ideas and get to talk to some interesting people, that makes me glad I work in higher education. Anyway — my presentation,…
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Dragging old data forward: finding yourself an RDA Helper
Sunday, I’ll be making an exception to my no ALA rule (well, it’s not a rule, but I’ve yet to find a good reason to get back involved) and will be in Seattle giving a talk as part of the ALCTS CaMMS program. The focus is around research, and I thought it would give me…
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MarcEdit 5.9 Update
I have been working hard over the past week to close a couple of outstanding issues with the application. The biggest of those issues is related to the Find/Find All function. While making some changes a few weeks ago, it appears that I introduced a bug. I’ve been working off-line with a few folks that…
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MarcEdit 5.9 Update
I know that there have been a lot of updates lately. Hopefully, folks haven’t minded. These updates have largely been due to folks really working out the RDA Helper, which has been nice. This update is specific to the RDA Helper. Bug Fix: RDA Helper — When attempting to create the 380/1, the program looks…
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MarcEdit 5.9 Update
I’ve posted a new update that includes the following changes: 1) Bug Fix: RDA Helper — Corrects the exception that occurs when trying to insert 33x, 38x fields when the highest field in the record is a lower than 329. 2) Enhancement: RDA Helper — I added the ability to embed regular expressions into the…
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MarcEdit 5.9 Update
Lite-update — really just to correct a couple data problems. One note, to enhance the Abbreviation substitution, I had to make the regular expressions a bit more complex. I’ll be keeping an eye on this part of the function to ensure that this doesn’t cause a performance bottleneck. Bug Fix: RDA Helper — When doing…
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C# Koha API Updates
I’ve updated the C# Koha API library that MarcEdit utilizes to include support for the item update when working with Koha version 3.8+. Additionally, I added to the git repository a reference application that demonstrates how to use the library. You’ll need to provide your own system and credentials to try it, but it should…
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