Terry’s Worklog

  • Character conversion in .NET

    I had someone who uses UniMARC ask me about some problems that they were having with the conversion between Unimarc to Dublin Core.  Some of the characters where being skewed when the translation occurred.  The problem of course relates to the characterset that the Unimarc records are encoded in.  Because a number of MARC formats…

  • Has anyone ever used Saxon.NET?

    Within MarcEdit, the MarcEngine makes use of the .NET System.xml libraries.  This has been a very good thing in that Microsoft has a very special class setup specifically for XSLT translations — and by adding some additional code and extending the class, I’ve been able to create a very fast XSLT processor.  The downer however…

  • MARC21XML=>Static OAI XSLT Stylesheet

    So I noticed David Bigwood mention on his blog (http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2006/07/static-oai.html) that he wished that there existed an XSLT stylesheet that moved data from MARC21XML to Static OAI.  Well, ask and you shall receive.  While I doubt that David will be able to make use of this (it sounds like he’s finished with his project), maybe…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 pre-update

    There are a few folks that have been requesting this — so I’ll make it available for those wanted to try it.  I’ll formalize the update later this week.  So what does it do?  The change is in how the MarcEngine handles DTDs.  By default, I’ve turned DTD validation off in order to make it…

  • Coding block?

    I’ve heard of writers block, but coders block?  Who knows.  All I know is that I’ve been in a bit of a funk lately.  After pushing out the first version of our metasearch tool, our group sat back and looked at retooling the program in Ruby.  Partly to make it easier to do R&D prototyping…

  • Qwest customer service — the 8th circle of hell

    Agh — I thought I’d taken care of this last month.  Earlier this year, I’d signed up for Qwest DSL.  It was great — we finally had high speed and for the ~8 months I was with them, their service was exactly what I paid for.  However, our little city of Independence, OR laid their…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 Update

    Ok — so I finished testing some of the generated code snippets and everything looks like its working.  So I’ve posted the update.  The program includes the changes noted from this following post: https://blog.reeset.net/archives/292.  It appears that the perl generation is working well and I corrected a small error with the vbscript generation.  So download…

  • MarcEdit 5.0: Generate Perl example

    So I’m wrapping this up as we speak.  I’ve been testing some of the instances and noticing that I’d left out a small block of code in the modified subfield section — so I’ll be finishing that tonight with the hope to post tonight.  But I thought I’d include a sample perl script generated by…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 Updates

    I won’t be posting these till tomorrow or Sunday, but here’s what’s coming: Script Maker:  Script maker will now support the generation of PERL scripts.  I’ve added the code to the interpreter and now its generating PERL scripts.  I need to test them.  Very likely, I’ll be fixing a few problems with them once I…

  • Sigh — another stupid software patent

    I see on Slashdot that Friendster (never heard of them) recently was granted a patent covering online social networks.  Sound broad — it is.  The actual patent itself reads: “system, method, and apparatus for connecting users in an online computer system based on their relationships within social networks.”  Well, that covers quite a bit.  Anyway,…

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