Terry’s Worklog

  • Reading between the lines

    Like a number of people, I found the following piece (http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i24/24a01101.htm) from the Chronicle of Higher Education on the Open Library fairly interesting — in part, because of the topics that the author chose to highlight.  I tend to categorizes pieces such as this as fluff, in that one rarely gets any content of substance…

  • MarcEdit 5.1 update

    Couple of updates — Finished adding functionality to support different DPI settings.  This corrects the oai harvester, the marc tools and some marceditor layout functionality. Batch File processor — fixed a small error in which the program would save marcxml=>marc conversions as xml files (rather than mrc files) Save/Save As — when harvesting (and other…

  • MarcEdit 5.1 Update

    Couple of quick updates to the program.  Added a new variable to the global vars passed when doing xslt transfers (currently, these variables are, destfile, sourcefile and pdate.  You access these as global parameters in your xslt file.  Two other changes.  Added the Compile Individual Selected Record(s) back into the 5.x branch and lastly, updated…

  • Bitter Cold

    I’ve been spending some time in Regina, Ca. this weekend and I can’t think of any time that I’ve been in such bitter cold.  When my plane landed on Saturday, a little afternoon, it was the high of the day around -29 F (but felt like -49 F with the wind).  By nightfall, it was…

  • MarcEdit update

    Quick update.  When using the Field Count report generator in the MarcEditor — the program will crash if it runs across fields that are non-numeric.  This is a hold over from 4.6 and early 5.0 instances when all fields were assumed numeric.  This has been corrected.   New build: http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/software/development/MarcEdit51_Setup.exe   –TR

  • MarcEdit 5.1 Tab Delimited Wizard Update

    I’ve been meaning to add direct Excel support to the Wizard for a while, and finally did this last weekend.  Here’s the new screens. Default Screen: If the selected Input File ends in an excel extension (*.xls), the form will change to show the following: Excel Import Screen: Couple of things of note.  Microsoft provides…

  • Harvesting UMich OAI records with MarcEdit

    I’ve had a few folks ask about the the procedure would be for a user wanting to harvest the UMich OAI records using MarcEdit.  Well, there are two workflows that can be followed depending on what you want to do.  You can harvest the OAI data and translate it directly to MARC or you can…

  • MarcEdit 5.1 update

    Posted a new version of MarcEdit.  The major changes: OAI harvester revisionsRevisions are oriented around the addition of fall-over code, some error correction, etc. marc8toutf8 processing updateUpdated the processing library to handle encoding errors a bit more gracefully. You can get the download from:  http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/software/development/MarcEdit51_Setup.exe   –TR

  • MARC21 University of Michigan Google Digital Books Records (records for testing/viewing)

    I was playing with MarcEdit’s OAI harvester, making a few changes to fix a problem that had been discovered, as well as add some fall-over code that allows the harvester to continue processing (or at least, attempt to continue processing) when the OAI server breaks the connection (generally through timeout).  To test, I decided to…

  • Securing licenses

    Kind of off topic  — but I had to make a trip to the dmv this morning.  I’ve been finding that airports, rental car agencies, etc. are having a difficult time accepting my current license because much of the information on it has been smeared or damaged due to water (I have on older license…

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