Terry’s Worklog

  • MarcEdit 7/3: Build Links Updates (non-MARC format support)

    I’ve had a few folks lately asking if I could expand MarcEdit’s build links tooling beyond MARC data.  The idea here is that: a lot of library data isn’t in marc there are a lot of different workflows where linked data starts to make its way into the process So, with this update, I’ve tried…

  • MarcEdit 7/3 OCLC Integration Bug Fixes

    MarcEdit 7.0.60+/3.0.30+’s OCLC Integration is currently broken, and it took me a little longer than I’d hoped to fix it.  Unfortunately, the work needed to support the changes were pretty extensive on the Mac-side due to either a framework change or a change in how OCLC’s API was returning it’s data (I honestly can’t tell…

  • MarcEdit 7 Usage (1/2018-7/2018)

    With 8 months under my belt, I figured it was time to take a look at the current information related to MarcEdit 7’s usage and uptake.  When  I took a look in Feb., the current download numbers were somewhere around 13-15,000 (I think).  As of today, there are approximately 72,000 unique users making use of…

  • Managing Task Groups in MarcEdit 7/3

    About a month ago, I started asking the community what kinds of enhancements that they would like to see as I started working on planning for MarcEdit 7.1.x and 3.1.x — and one of the comments, related to task and task management, seemed like such a good idea that I decided to go ahead and…

  • MarcEdit 7: Transliteration Updates

    Hi MarcEdit folks, I just wanted to point out that with the latest update, I’ve included a number of new features — but I wanted to highlight one specifically — transliterations. While working on MarcEdit 7, one of the requests that I wasn’t able to address was transliterations. I’ve been chatting with OCLC about potentially…

  • Hidden costs of development

    A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to speak to a group of researchers and software developers.  These were folks that, through their research, had developed a set of tools or services and were interested in making the software available either free or open source, and were trying to get a handle on the…

  • I wonder if there should be cake….2019 and planning for MarcEdit @ 20

    This past year has been a bit of a blur for me. Professionally, I’ve been tied up in some large projects at work that we are just starting to see significant benefits from; I’ve just come out of a year-long project to update MarcEdit; completed the second edition of a book I co-author (https://www.alastore.ala.org/content/building-digital-libraries-second-edition); and…

  • MarcEdit 7/MarcEdit 3.x Mac–when editing data requires the use of NOT matches

    This kind of question has come up on the marcedit listserv a number of times over the past month.  Users have been asking the following kinds of questions: I’d like to replace data in the Call Number and add [x] data, but only if the 020 does not have electronic resources in the text. I’d…

  • MarcEdit 7/MacOS 3.x delimited text changes

    I wanted to give folks a heads up that I’ll be making significant changes to the delimited text translator.  Over the past year, the ability to read Excel data in Windows has been a source of significant troubleshooting.  MarcEdit utilizes a Windows Component added when Excel is installed, and over the past year, updates and…

  • MarcEdit MacOS UI Changes

    There are going to be quite a few of UI changes when I update MarcEdit 3.x for MacOS.  A couple can be seen below. –tr

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