Terry’s Worklog

  • 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

  • MarcEdit MacOS 3.x update prep/notification

    I’ve finally been able to recover my MacOS environment after it was bricked during a past security update, and with that — I’ve been spending this week rolling updates into the tool. This is a heads up that the MacOS update planned for this Sunday will be a big one.  I’ve included the list below…

  • MarcEdit 7 Update: XML Profile/OAI Harvester Changes

    Updated:  BePress reached out on twitter pointing to a status page created this afternoon (May 8th): https://www.bepress.com/status/  I’m willing to assuming good intentions here, and trust that this will be a temporary condition.  I’ll also trust that in the future, they will do a better job notifying their customers prior to blacklisting services that they…

  • Linked Data Updates in MarcEdit 7

    If you use MarcEdit’s linked data tooling (or are interested in using it) — a couple notes about updates planned for this week.  I’ve been making some targeted changes to improve performance, expanding the number of defined collections, and have been looking at the rules file to see if I could shift it from XML…

  • MarcEdit 7 Update: Regular Expression Store, Thread Pooling, and Task Manager Updates

    I’ve posted a new MarcEdit 7 update. This includes the following changes: Verify URLs — there is an option to manage # of threads used. This is the first time this tool will utilize a thread pool to provide faster query. I wouldn’t recommend using more than 10 threads (3-5 is a good number) as…

  • MarcEdit 7 Update and bug fix notes

    (Posting this on my blog as well) I have a necessary MarcEdit update planned for tonight, as it fixes a problem introduced in the last update that I don’t believe anyone is seeing (I didn’t) until you start working with really large files. I found it yesterday and was up till around 3:30 this morning…

  • MarcEdit 2017 Usage Information

    Every year, I like to take a couple of minutes and pull my log files to get a quick and dirty look at who might be making use of MarcEdit.  This year, I was also interested in how quickly MarcEdit 7 is being picked up, as the application install base is large and diverse and…

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