Terry’s Worklog

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…

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…

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…

(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…

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…

I’m continuing to flesh out how to make it easier to work with normalizations — specifically — so that what is being queried is actually what is being found.  In general, the new normalization enforcement options solve issues relating to finding and replacing text.  However, the place where this still comes up as a challenge…

One area that I’d like to see MarcEdit continue to evolve is around the support for the clustering of data to support editing or data extraction.  While tools like OpenRefine will provide a much more robust set of tooling, there are barriers to using these tools due to the nature of library data.  By embedding…

I posted updates that spanned all versions of MarcEdit yesterday.   The updates were primary based around the thoughts I’ve been having around unicode normalizations, and a need to provide a way to formalized and standardized normalizations across records.  Unicode Normalizations In all versions of MarcEdit, there is a new settings in the preferences window: When…