Terry’s Worklog

I’ve been spending a lot of time working on a new feature for MarcEdit 7 — Watch Folders.  The idea behind this concept is that users may have files that they get regularly from vendors, staff, etc. that are part of a specific workflow.  Rather than having to open each file into MarcEdit in order…

Since the early 2000’s, when libraries started moving traditional cataloging data into and out of MARC, the presence and necessity of ISBD punctuation has been a topic of much debate.  Generally, if you have to take data from MARC to XML, ISBD punctuation is a scourge, one of many past sins that tied MARC a…

Change log for updates posted 8/25/2018 — those that are windows only are marked with (*) New MarcEngine options Replace smart quotes or typesetters marks with “dumb” characters.  The characters addressed: \u2013, en dash \u2014, em dash \u2015, horizontal bar \u2017, double low line \u2018, left single quotation mark \u2019, right single quotation mark \u201a,…

* Posted to the listserv, but putting it here since the community is larger than the list. Before I go too far down the rabbit hole, I wanted to toss an idea out and see what folks thought.  I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how MarcEdit could be modified to cut some steps out…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…