Terry’s Worklog

I had a question posed to me the other day asking how someone might go about moving cartographic data found in MARC records into formats that might be usable by GIS systems.  Essentially, how could you get the position data found in records and put in a format useful for other people. MarcEdit doesn’t have…

The last year, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how normalizations impact records in our various current an next-generation MARC systems (https://blog.reeset.net/archives/2532).  About a year ago, I embedded into MarcEdit the ability to enforce normalization due to many libraries starting to experience significant record loading issues due to requirements within their systems to…

I had mentioned on twitter that an option exists in the MarcEdit preferences that automatically configures the tool to keep a 10 day backup of one’s configuration settings.  This led to a couple questions, like — what is being backed up, how do I turn this on, when was it added? This made me realize…

New feature to MarcEdit 7/MarcEdit Mac 3 is a custom report writer.  I periodically get requests to generate one-off reports or add new specialty reports to MarcEdit.  Since MarcEdit is a general use tool — I general direct folks with very specialized needs to programming tools or help walk through some workflows to get the…

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…