Terry’s Worklog

  • MarcEdit Direct ILS Integration – Update/Create records [Koha Example]

    This afternoon, I put the finishing touches on the update/creation components for the ILS direct integration framework in MarcEdit.  As a proof of concept, I’ve continued to demonstrate the processing utilizing Koha’s API.  The Koha API has been abstracted as a separate class so I can push up to github for those interested in a…

  • Working with the Koha ILS HTTP API

    I’ve been spending the last week working with the Koha API, using it as an example for MarcEdit’s direct ILS integration platform.  After spending some time working with it and pushing some data through it, I have a couple of brief thoughts. I was pleasantly surprised as how easy the API was to work with. …

  • MarcEdit Direct ILS Integration – Searching for data [single and batch] — [Koha Example]

    One of the new features coming to MarcEdit is direct ILS integration.  Working with Koha as a proof of concept, the attached video demonstrates how users can utilize the MarcEditor to retrieve data directly from within their ILS system (using both single and batch searches).  This feature will be available to users around Dec. 1st-ish,…

  • MarcEdit Direct ILS Integration Setup [Koha Example]

    One of the things I have been working on is a framework for supporting the ability to configure MarcEdit to support the direct integration with one’s ILS system.  Many ILS systems like Sierra, Alma, Koha, and others support (or will support) APIs that allow for the modification and creation of bibliographic.  I’ve developed a framework…

  • Using the Koha API with C#

    I’ve been tinkering with the Koha API to allow MarcEdit to do some direct ILS integration with Koha-based systems.  When I first agreed to look at doing this work, I wasn’t sure what the API looked like.  Fortunately for me, the folks that put it together made it simple and easy to work with.  There…

  • MarcEdit – Direct ILS Integration

    With all the new ILS systems being produced and the emphasis being placed on support for API support, one of the things that I’d like to eventually see is the ability to integrate directly with specific ILS systems to allow users to pull content directly from their systems (in batch or individually), edit the records…

  • MarcEdit 5.8 Delimited Text Translator – Auto Generate Arguments List

    One of the often requested enhancements to the MarcEdit Delimited Text Translator is the ability to auto generate the arguments list.  For many users, their spreadsheets or delimited text documents include a line at the beginning of the document defining the data found in the file.  I’ve often had folks wonder if I could do…

  • Preventing outside linking to images to prevent bandwidth stealing

    One of my hats that I wear at home is IT professional for my wife, specifically when it comes to her blog.  To keep things running well, I periodically monitor bandwidth usage and space usage to make sure that we keep our hosts happy.  Well, over the past two months, I’d noticed a really, really,…

  • Can we have open library standards, please? Free RDA/AACR2

    I’ve been spending a lot of time working with the RDA specifications over the last few months due to the development of the RDA Helper and it still pains me every time I go to the RDA Toolkit that this specification isn’t open.  It’s hidden away behind pay walls from the prying eyes of non-librarians…

  • MarcEdit 5.8 – Auto convert all data to UTF8/MARC8 [Updated]

    The last MarcEdit update introduced a new Preference into the application — the ability to tell the application that all data compiled from the MarcEditor needs to be converted/saved as UTF8.  The new option should make it easier for folks that receive data in MARC-8 formats to simply work on their records and then compile…

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