Terry’s Worklog

  • 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…

  • 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…

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