Terry’s Worklog

  • OCLC Connexion Plug-in known issue

    Apparently folks are interested in this type of tool, as I had a few folks trying it.  One known issue and two changes coming in the next day or two.  Known Issue: For some reason, the internal OCLC metadata schema uses delimiters for the 007 field (even though its a control field).  My default template…

  • MarcEdit 5.1 update

    Lots of updates.  Of note: Inclusion of a plug-in manager Necessitated the inclusion of Zip functionality (thanks to the SharpDevelop project [http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/]) AppDomain manager (for loading and unloading code) Fixed Preview file error: Follow the code execution patches, windows has changed the format in which file names are passed to applications.  This corrects the problems…

  • MarcEdit 5.1 update set for Monday

    So much for an early night.  It’s 12:58 am — fortunately, all the code is working on my two test systems.  The new plug-in code is working, install is working — so all good.  Now I just need to run the program through its unit tests on my clean machine.  Since that takes about an…

  • MarcEdit Delimited Text Translator changes

    Quick enhancement to to the Delimited Text Translator.  The delimited text translator provides a pretty flexible flexible method for translating delimited data into MARC.  It gives you a GUI interface to profile (and save profiles) of how a delimited text file should be processed.  Of course, a number of strict rules have always had to…

  • MarcEdit Plug-ins: OCLC Connexion data plug-in example

    Ugh, I’m hoping that I can keep my eyes open long enough to finish getting this built, but thought I’d provide a little info on the plug-in framework that I’m setting up in MarcEdit.  First, a reason why I’m even doing this.  As time is going forward, I’m finding that I have a few ideas…

  • Belated MarcEdit update coming

    A quick note to let a few folks that are waiting know that I do have a MarcEdit update coming.  All the code has been updated and tested, its just getting a chance to build the install.  I’d hoped to do it this evening, but I’ve been busy working on other projects and just needed…

  • XSLT and Ruby/Rails

    While adding REST support for Libraryfind, I found that I wanted to provide an output in XML, but that could also provide HTML if an XSLT was attached.  In Rails, generating XML files is actually pretty easy.  In Rails, output is specified in views.  HTML views are created using a .rhtml extension, while xml views…

  • LibraryFind installation: dealing with problems relating to openssl and rubygems

    I was installing LibraryFind on a server at Willamette University the other day for testing purposes, and ran into something that I had never seen before.  While setting up the dependencies on the test server, I found that the current version of ruby found in the distro’s YUM repository was old (1.8.5), so I decided…

  • LibraryFind 0.8.5: threading and XSLT and REST, Oh my

    At present, I’m wrapping up the back-end changes to what will be LibraryFind 0.8.5.  Yup, we’ll be skipping 0.8.4 in part because I’d like the release point to represent the broadness of the changes being made.  In fact, had the UI portions of the code been modified to completely support the new back-end searching, we’d…

  • LibraryFind and Mobile Services

    One of the things I was really impressed with while attending DLF was the presentation on the lightweight web platform being built at NCSU.  Leveraging their endeca catalog, the folks at NCSU have been able to produce a set of REST-based api for querying the catalog.  With those services, they’ve designed a mobile interface and…

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