Terry’s Worklog

  • LibraryFind code refactoring

    I’ve been spending time this weekend refactoring a major piece of the LibraryFind code partly in an effort to make it easier to add protocol classes.  This change affects a lot of the current API code-base, but the biggest change comes in the meta_search.rb file where nearly all the business logic relating to searching, etc.…

  • Roy Tennant vs RDA (and AutoCat) 🙂

    Ah, what fun.  Working in Technical Services, I tend to lurk on the AutoCat list to keep up and get an idea of what folks are chatting about there.  Normally the conversation is on traditional cataloging issues, but Roy’s latest musings in Library Journal (“Will RDA Be DOA”, url: http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA6422278.html) seems to have raised peoples…

  • MarcEdit 5 update

    I’ve posted an update to MarcEdit.  Couple of changes: MARC21XML output: Larry Dixon from LC let me know that the xmlschema location value was incorrectly set on occasion.  Didn’t notice for two reasons: 1) It doesn’t affect my xslt processors and 2) I don’t use namespaces. Export Selected/Delete Selected — ability to use a file…

  • Finally, in Athens

    So Kyle and I finally made our way from Oregon to Athens, Georgia for Code4Lib.  Apparently, we missed a big storm in the Valley.  Apparently, the wind is blowing 30-45 mph with cold, slushy rain falling off an on.  I was told that it hit hard around 5 am.  Fortunately (depending on your point of…

  • Keeping your cycle rolling

    Most folks know, I love cycling and am probably one of a relatively few number of folks that commutes any real distance that actually puts more miles on their bike than they do in their car.  I was figuring it out last year:  ~15,000 miles for the bike, ~10,000 miles for the car.  🙂  So when I…

  • MarcEdit update

    I’ve been doing some work on the Delimited Text importer this weekend.  Nothing big — just some simple changes to make the import process work better — particularly when dealing with csv files (which MarcEdit periodically splits up incorrectly when dealing with MS Excel data).  Anyway, I think I’ve got a much better process using…

  • Images: New radiation warning–run for your life | ZDNet Photo Gallery

    I’m not quite sure why this strikes me as hillarious…probably the description as posted by ZDNet.  It reads: The International Atomic Energy Agency and the International Organization for Standardization want you to know when it’s time to panic by adding a person running and a skull and crossbones to its radiation warning symbol. Instantly, I…

  • Running MarcEdit 5 on macs, linux and other updates

    So with the coming preconference at Code4Lib (which I wish I was going to :(), I’ve had a few folks ask if MarcEdit can run on a mac or linux system.  Well, the console version of the application can.  The GUI portion of the program still relies on components that haven’t been fully migrated into…

  • Mainstreaming R&D

    I’ve become more and more convened over the past year talking to directors that for OSS development to be accepted as a part of the library community, it’s going to have to become a mainstream service.  Too much R&D in libraries is done as part of an individual, student or demo project.  To a large…

  • MarcEdit 5 update

    Apparently in an update, I’d broken the MARCJoin function (the files to join wasn’t being set).  Sorry about that.  So, I’ve fixed this and in fixing this, corrected a problem with the same function in the console program.  To run in the console, you’d use the following: %cmarcedit.exe -s c:\myfile.mrc;c:\myfile2.mrc -d c:\newfile.mrc -join In the…

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