Terry’s Worklog

I periodically get requests for a variety of different types of custom, one-off reports for addition to MarcEdit.  Some of these can be accommodated in the current tooling, some of these can’t.  Often times, I encourage folks to look at the COM or API components as this provides full access to the records and allows…

Over the past 3 months, I’ve been embarking on a significant effort to redesign one of the fundamental workflows in the MarcEdit software — that being the way manual and global edits are handled.  Currently In all versions of MarcEdit, global edits and manual edits are handled differently within the Editor.  This is largely due…

This year, the biggest project that I’ve been undertaking is a re-write of how MarcEdit’s MarcEditor handles and tracks changes in files.  In MarcEdit (since the very first version) — the tool has separated edits into two workflows. 1. Edits made manually 2. Edits made using the global tools Some resources, like Report generation and…

While continuing to add the finishing touches to the Watch Folders — I realized I needed to provide a couple of additional contextual notes.  Watch Folder Behavior C# provides a couple of different methods to make this work.  Probably the most straight forward is what is called a FileSystemWatcher event that can be tagged to…

I’ve been spending a lot of time working on a new feature for MarcEdit 7 — Watch Folders.  The idea behind this concept is that users may have files that they get regularly from vendors, staff, etc. that are part of a specific workflow.  Rather than having to open each file into MarcEdit in order…

Since the early 2000’s, when libraries started moving traditional cataloging data into and out of MARC, the presence and necessity of ISBD punctuation has been a topic of much debate.  Generally, if you have to take data from MARC to XML, ISBD punctuation is a scourge, one of many past sins that tied MARC a…

Change log for updates posted 8/25/2018 — those that are windows only are marked with (*) New MarcEngine options Replace smart quotes or typesetters marks with “dumb” characters.  The characters addressed: \u2013, en dash \u2014, em dash \u2015, horizontal bar \u2017, double low line \u2018, left single quotation mark \u2019, right single quotation mark \u201a,…

* Posted to the listserv, but putting it here since the community is larger than the list. Before I go too far down the rabbit hole, I wanted to toss an idea out and see what folks thought.  I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how MarcEdit could be modified to cut some steps out…