How To: Translating XML data to MARC
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How To: Validating Records
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How To: Using the MarcEditor
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How To: Getting started with Z39.50
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How To: Merging MARC Records
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How To: Converting between charactersets
Getting Started Characterset support has long been a thorn in the side of many technical services librarians, because MARC data comes in so many different flavors and local character encodings. For catalogers in North America — two primary character encodings are dominant: MARC8 and UTF8. MARC8, of course, is an imaginary characterset that Libraries invented …
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HowTo: Editing your first recordset
I’ve got a record, now what? I think that one of the biggest strength’s and challenges of working with the MarcEdit application is that there are generally more than one way to do anything. The program was designed with the idea that the application should be able to adapt to your workflows, not the other …
MarcEdit 7.5.x OCLC Connexion Plugin: Access Database Engine
Starting in MarcEdit 7.5.x, the application is including the 64 bit MS Access Database Engine (2010) Redistributable library as a dependency that will be automatically installed on request. This dependency is installed any time the following conditions are met: A user selects the OCLC Connexion Plugin Feature Component in the Installer The 64-bit 2010, 2013, …
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Available Edit mnemonics
MarcEdit includes some special commands that can be used in the global editing tools to fill in specific types of data. Regular Expression Expansion: lcase([data to lowercase)Example: this is the data that i want lcase(LOWER) ucase([data to uppercase)Example: this is the data that i want ucase(upper) Generate Dates https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/custom-date-and-time-format-strings{date(“[formatted string]“} Examples {date(“yyyy-MM-dd”)} {date(“yyyy-MM”)} MarcEdit can …
Supported MARC-8 mnemonics
The MarcEdit application supports the following diacritic mnemonics. The MarcEdit application supports the following diacritic mnemonics. ******************************************** hex value, decimal value, mnemonic, *name/comment ** ??, ???, {…}, *[character name (FORMAT)] ********************************************00x,000d,{00},*hex value 00 (MARC 21)01x,001d,{01},*hex value 01 (MARC 21)02x,002d,{02},*hex value 02 (MARC 21)03x,003d,{03},*hex value 03 (MARC 21)04x,004d,{04},*hex value 04 (MARC 21)05x,005d,{05},*hex value 05 (MARC 21)06x,006d,{06},*hex …