Terry’s Worklog

  • Marcedit update

    Two bugs in MarcEdit — one simple, one more involved.  The simple one has been fixed and uploaded.  The easy one to fix — In the deduplication tool, there are occasions when the program will throw an error if access code in the message pump accesses the GUI elements before they are ready.  More difficult…

  • Nicholas Carr — Wikipedia as a black hole

    I like to track Nicholas Carr’s blog, Rough Type, partly because it deals with a number of media issues — particularly with Wikipedia.  So it was interesting to get his take on Wikipedia’s decision this last weekend to make all its external links, no-follow links.  Here’s the post: http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/01/is_wikipedia_a.php   –TR

  • Fun at the space needle

    III had their ALA get together at the Space Needle.  It’s a very cool place and they had my usual favorites — the chocolate fountain with chocolate covered strawberries.  Actually, the strawberries were covered in white and dark chocolate — with the strawberries looking like they are wearing tuxedos (I loved it).  And they had…

  • Translating ETDs from Dspace OAI to MARC

    Ok — here’s the info.  File: MidWinter 2007 ALCTS PresentationSo what’s included?  Zip file contains our custom XSLT that’s used in MarcEdit, the Macro that I use to clean data, and the ppt slides.  The XSLT file is a custom version of the default OAIDC translation found in MarcEdit.  Its customized to deal with the…

  • Translating ETDs from Dspace OAI to MARC

    I’m giving a short 15 minute presentation at ALA (How Catalogers and System Developers Work Creatively with Metadata: 1:30-3:30 pm at the Convention center) on the process OSU uses to moving ETD data going into Dspace directly into MARC/OCLC and our catalog.  Its a pretty simple process.  If you want to see how we do…

  • MarcEdit 5.0.2574.28817 Update

    I’ve posted a new update to MarcEdit 5.  The update includes the following changes: Added a Sort by Title to the MarcEditor and rearranged the sort commands I’d been asked by a few folks to add the ability to sort a results set by title — this new function allows that.  To make this work, I’ve…

  • MarcEdit "rosettastone"

    I’ll likely change the name, but I’ve been creating a simple SOAP service that will be able to migrate metadata directly between 7 known metadata formats — or user defined formats, in addition to the ability to harvest OAI to MARC, MARCXML or user defined.  I’m note sure how useful something like this could be…

  • Ruby and Date classes

    I’d seen this somewhere before, but thought I’d benchmark it to see if it was true.  Ruby has 3 classes for doing dates.  There is Date, DateTime and Time classes.  In languages like C# and PHP, the equivalent DateTime class is the one that is generally utilized to do date/time manipulations.  However, in Ruby, DateTime…

  • Ice storm, 2007

    Good lord, we get an inch of snow and we have an “extreme winter weather alert” in Oregon.  Maybe its time to hit the panic button. 🙂 –TR

  • CONTENTdm and OpenSearch

    I love OpenSearch.  It’s been one of those things that I’ve been wanting to spend more time looking at — maybe incorporate into Dspace or some of our other services like LibraryFind (which actually is now on the todo list).  Anyway, folks may not know it, but Kyle Banerjee and I are writing a book. …

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