Terry’s Worklog

  • Bring on the Penn State Kitty cats

    So, its official (as of last week I believe), but Oregon State University’s football team will be traveling to Happy Valley to play the Lions — and I’ll be there.  My wife has given me the ok so I’ve got the plane tickets, a hotel room in altoona, pa and a rental car.  Now all…

  • My non-LITA top tech trends

    (Note, I started this post last night, but had to put it away so I could get some rest before a 6 am flight.  I finished the remainder of this while waiting for my flight).  So, after getting up way to early this morning, I staggered my way down to the LITA Top Tech Trends…

  • How they see us

    After a long day of flying, I got to Philly about an hour late (thanks to some snow at the St. Paul airport) and found taxis to be in short supply.  So, I hired a driver and on the drive over, had a great conversation.  My favorite part came when we chatted about our days. …

  • Finally, proof that I did something last year 🙂

    I’ll only have one more post about this (when I actually have books in hand), but Kyle Banerjee and I spent the last year writing a book about building digital libraries.  While I yet to have the proof in hand, I did get a call from our publisher letting us know that the book is…

  • Using MarcEdit to reuse (and maybe import) items in Dspace

    I’ve been thinking a little bit about some of the things that I use MarcEdit for and have been pushing some of this work off my desk to some of the staff in our technical services department.  We actually use MarcEdit quite a bit when it comes to sharing metadata from our Dspace instance with…

  • MarcEdit OAI harvester changes

    Just a small update.  I’d run into a case where I needed to download some data being provided via OAI in a non-Library specific metadata schema.  While the MarcEdit OAI Harvester allows for the definition of your own crosswalks, it limits the types of metadata_Prefixes that can be sent via the harvester (by defining 4…

  • Christmas 2007

    Christmas has come and in 10 minutes, will go for another year, and it was fun.  Nathan came up with two of my favorite memories of this year’s Christmas.  One happened two days ago when we opened presents at my parents house.  Nathan and Kenny got a little foam shooter and he was hot to…

  • MarcEdit 5.x and OCLC Plug-in Update

    I took a couple of minutes and made a few changes to MarcEdit and the OCLC plug-in to provide some additional functionality to the plug-in framework and fix an error in the OCLC plug-in.  Changes: MarcEdit: One real change.  In the MacroInterfaces.dll (the library that allows the Scripting interface and the Plug-in interface access to…

  • C# plug-ins continued — Interacting with one’s hosted application

    Example Project Source: PluginProject.zip Because I’ve been doing a lot of work with MarcEdit and plug-ins, I thought I’d post some sample code for anyone interested in how this might work.  Essentially, the sample project includes 3 parts — a host application, a set of Interfaces and a Shared library.  Making this work requires a…

  • OCLC’s Connexion XML — why, oh why?

    As I’d noted previously (https://blog.reeset.net/archives/479), some early testers had found that the Connexion plug-in that I’d written for MarcEdit stripped the 007.  I couldn’t originally figure out why — it’s just a control field and their syntax for control fields is pretty straightforward.  However, after looking at a few records with 007 records, I could…

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