Terry’s Worklog

  • 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…

  • atscap and pchdtvr GPL revoked or can it be

    I’ve never used this package (apparently its used for HDTV scheduling/recording on Linux), but this link on Slashdot caught my eye: http://sourceforge.net/developer/diary.php?diary_id=26407&diary_user=147583.  Apparently, the developer of this software package is seeking to revoke the GPL license not just for his current code, but his past code/package as well.  I have a difficult time believing that…

  • Talking with Talis

    In response to my top tech trends post, Richard Wallis had asked if I would be willing to expand my thoughts in their Talking with Talis podcast series.  Sounded fun (and it was).  You can find it at: http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives/2008/01/terry_reese_sha.php if you are interested.   –TR

  • Is IT becoming too disposable?

    This is something that came up when I was expanding my thoughts from one of my “non-lita tech trends” earlier this morning and the more I’ve thought about it, the more I’m finding it weighing on my mind.  I’m wondering if we are making our hardware too disposable in the name of convenience.  This comes…

  • Sun aquires MySQL

    URL: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7611   I don’t know why, but this makes me a little sad.  Oh, yeah — I know why — I trust Sun about as much as I trust a wolf in a hen house.  Let’s hope they don’t screw up MySQL.   –TR

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