Terry’s Worklog

  • MarcEdit and Solr

    With the preconference at Code4lib coming, folks are looking for ways to get their MARC data into a format that Solr can load.  Andrew Nagy has made an XSLT that can convert MARCXML data to a Solr format, and David Bigwood notes that MarcEdit can be used to generate those MARCXML records.  This is true —…

  • Can the open source community help the ILS matter?

    So, let’s start out with a preface to my comments here.  First, it’s a little on the long side.  Sorry.  I got a bit wordy and occasionally wonder a little bit here and there :).  Second — these reflect my opinions and observations.  So with that out of the way…  This question comes from two experiences…

  • Chilly in Rochester

    So I spent a rather nippy night last night hanging out in Rochester, NY.  I’m in town for the next few days with a number of other (maybe 30) folks to talk about (and learn about) the University of Rochester’s XC (eXtensible Catalog) project.  Funny, the day started out oddly.  While driving to Portland to…

  • MarcEdit 5 and Vista

    So I’ve been having a few folks ask about MarcEdit 5.0 and Vista — specifically, are there problems installing one on the other.  Well, I found myself a version of Vista (Enterprise Edition) and gave it a while.  Good news — no problems.  The only problem that I ran into was the install program.  In…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 update

    I uploaded a small change to the MarcEdit program.  It includes the following changes: Stub code added to accommodate a new input interface.  It’s not finished yet — but I’ve started making some code revisions to make it easier to implement. Setup File Changes Additions to the language file Custom Sort Feature in MarcEditor Misc.…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 update

    What folks may not realize, is that MarcEdit 5.0 includes a command-line program.  I added a few more command-line switches to give users access to the XML transformations through the command-line.  At this point, the following arguments are available: Arguments:        -s:     Path to file to be processed.                        If calling the join utility, source must be…

  • Inside Higher Ed :: A Stand Against Wikipedia

     Classic…Middlebury College’s history dept. is banning the use of Wikipedia as a source for papers.  Not that noteworthy given the academic community’s general dislike for the resource.  What I don’t understand is why the department banned it.  So its not authorative[1] — who cares.  Part of the job of faculty is to teach students to:…

  • Kyle’s just nuts

    I’ve been starting to look this upcoming summer and trying to decide which century and double century rides I’ll be participating in this summer.  There a a few that I always ride in, like the Monster Cookie at the start of the year which is just a metric century and a good stretch of the…

  • Digital World Norway Outlaws iTunes

    Interesting…I’m not a big fan of governments legislating services — particular a service like this in part because there are available options to work around Apple’s Fairplay DRM and allow play of downloaded items on other players.  So I’m not sure what to think about this.  On the one hand — it would be great if the whole DRM concept could…

  • Groklaw – Patent Office Orders Re-Examination of Blackboard Patent

     Uh, oh.  Looks like the folks at Blackboard should have just let well enough alone.  Given a short period of time, a pluthera of prior art was able to quickly be located — enough to cause a re-examination of the patent.  See the link: Link to Groklaw – Patent Office Orders Re-Examination of Blackboard Patent…

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