Terry’s Worklog

  • Bye, bye daddy

    What a kick. Its been a long time since my oldest son (4) started to learn how to talk. Kenny, my oldest, was an early talker — which we figured meant that he had a lot of different stuff say. Well, Nathan (10 months) has finally taken an interest in trying to express himself. He’s…

  • Digital Production on Demand

    Oregon State University has recently started what I’m hoping will be a very successful program — a Digitization on Demand service. The idea is to allow subject selects to select important materials in our collection for digitization and then we will make them available via a collection in our IR. Right now we are still…

  • Lots of climbing

    Well, after feeling utterly embarrassed by my weak climb up Mary’s Peak, I’ve decided to start a little training program to get myself into climbing shape. While I don’t have anything as steep as Mary’s Peak to train on regularly, I did find what would be a “mini” Mary’s Peak on SoapBox road — which…

  • UTF-8 to MARC-8 component updates (July 22, 2005)

    When I first started putting this version of MarcEdit together, I had a number of goals. Some of the most prominent were: 1) Improved UTF-8 support to remove adoption boundaries for libraries 2) Provide UTF-8 to MARC-8 support to allow for seamless movement of data between XML and MARC sources. The first was easy —…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 beta Refresh (July 21, 2005: 11:48 pst)

    Small tweek to the utftomarc converter. I hadn’t upgraded its handling of non-MARC-8 characters to the new W3C format — this has been done now. New download: marcedit50_2005_07_21b.zip Thanks, –Terry

  • MarcEdit Beta Refresh (July 21, 2005)

    I’ve just updated the MarcEdit Beta Build. The issues corrected in this build were specific to MarcEdit’s Unicode functionality. Changes: 1) First, the MarcEditor and the MARCEngine has support added for entities…i.e., characters can be represented as W3C notation: 齊…Of course, this leads to a problem in terms of tracking the input stream since .NET…

  • MarcEdit 5.0: MARCEngine bugs

    FYI — I’ve had some folks start testing the UTF-8 to MARC-8 conversion and there are a few problems when dealing with CJK items. I’ve made the corrections and will be updating the build later today.

  • MarcEdit 5.0 Beta Refresh (July 19, 2005)

    Updated: I refreshed the build to include a small correction to the UTF-8 conversion routine. The problem occurred when you had dangling combining characters in a record. The program will now detect these danglers and include a space for diacritic to combine on. This way, the diacritic isn’t lost and the combining character doesn’t attach…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 beta bugs

    Couple of bugs worth noting in the MarcEdit 5.0 beta (updated July 14th). 1) When a left bracket ({) is encountered in its mnemonic form — the mnemonic reader doesn’t reposition itself correctly to read the rest of the line. This will cause the engine to stop unexpectedly. 2) Delimited Text Translator appears to have…

  • Mary’s Peak

    Kyle Banerjee and I took a trip to Mary’s Peak this weekend to get a bit of a hill workout. This is the largest mountain in the Coast Range in Oregon (about 4000+ feet) — not terribly large, but pretty constant climb. Reaching the summit is very worth it. On a clear day, you can…

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