Terry’s Worklog

  • MarcEdit 7/3: Updating MarcEditor file processing

    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…

  • MarcEdit 7: Folder Watcher Service Enhancements

    I’ve been continuing to think about new workflows that could be added to the Watcher service.  One of the most requested is the ability for MarcEdit’s tool to not only watch local files, but to be able to monitor remote files hosted on FTP/SFTP servers as well.  So, over the past couple of weeks, I’ve…

  • What I’ve been up to these past many months

    For the past 6 years, I’ve volunteered first as a coach and now as the coordinator of the Robotics program at the Grandview Heights Middle School.  The program starts every August and usually wraps around the second week of Jan.  This year, I’ve been the program coordinator and mentor/coach for 6 teams with almost 50…

  • MarcEdit 7: Watch Folder–part 2

    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…

  • MarcEdit 7: Watch Folders

    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…

  • MarcEdit 7: ISBD Normalization Experimentation

    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…

  • MarcEdit 3/7 Changelog

    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,…

  • Looking for feedback on a new MarcEdit feature

    * 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…

  • MarcEdit 7/3: Build Links Updates (non-MARC format support)

    I’ve had a few folks lately asking if I could expand MarcEdit’s build links tooling beyond MARC data.  The idea here is that: a lot of library data isn’t in marc there are a lot of different workflows where linked data starts to make its way into the process So, with this update, I’ve tried…

  • MarcEdit 7/3 OCLC Integration Bug Fixes

    MarcEdit 7.0.60+/3.0.30+’s OCLC Integration is currently broken, and it took me a little longer than I’d hoped to fix it.  Unfortunately, the work needed to support the changes were pretty extensive on the Mac-side due to either a framework change or a change in how OCLC’s API was returning it’s data (I honestly can’t tell…

Got any book recommendations?

Get In Touch