Terry’s Worklog

This weekend, I started working on a writing project — kind of a MarcEdit instructional, and in pulling together some information about the evolution of MarcEdit, I found something interesting — I still have functioning versions of MarcEdit from version 1-present.  Knowing what the program looks like now, I found it interesting (and slightly embarrassing)…

I’ll be bringing back one function to MarcEdit — the ability to assign extensions to specific functions in MarcEdit.  This was something that was available in MarcEdit 4.x — but I removed in the 5.x series.  After a few requests, I’ve brought it back.  However, it’s slightly different and I hope a little bit better.…

Since March 10, 2010 when MarcEdit included an automatic updater — the automated updating service has been pinged approximately 670,000 times.  Curious to see if service hits gets close to 700-725 K by the end of a 12 month period. –TR

For Christmas, I posted an updated version of MarcEdit.  It included a number of new features, the biggest being an update to the Merge Records tool.  This is the first part of a two part update process.  I’m hoping the second part of the update will be completed by New Years.  Anyway, the matching tool…

I’m not sure many people realize it, but there is a completely command-line driven version of MarcEdit.  This version provides an easy to use command-line tool that can be used with other cmd tools to pipe data or processes together.  One of the fundamental changes between the cmarcedit and marcedit GUI applications is that any…

I’ve finally gotten around to re-introducing a function that had been in the 4.x version of MarcEdit into the 5.x series.  The function re-introduced is the ability to edit subsets of records and then save the data back into the data file where the subset resides.  For example, say have a large set of records,…