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Conditional Subfield Insert: Special Subfield characters: []^ Description: When inserting certain subfield data, like the GMD, AACR2 has a number of rules regarding the placement of the subfield data. In the current version of MarcEdit, users could append a new subfield to the end of an existing one — but for data like the GMD, …
Benjamin Abrahamse from MIT gave this presentation at NETSL in 2010 on using the MarcEdit Z39.50 Client’s batch processing mode to retrieve MARC records. If you are interesting in this topic, this presentation: https://netsl.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/abrahamsegofishnetsl2010.pdf is a great place to start.
Please see: https://marcedit.reeset.net/learning_marcedit/book-v-features-for-developers/chapter-4-working-with-marcedits-command-line-tools/ for the most current information on the command line program options. ************************************************************************************************************************ MarcEdit includes a separate command-line tool that encapsulates a wide range of functionality. The tool provides a GUIless interface that can be used within shell scripts or other automation tools. The command-line tool is available in all versions of MarcEdit. On …
You can find the link here. It is often a little out of date — but I try to update these files whenever things change. https://marcedit.reeset.net/software/api_docs/api_com/ Interested in seeing some examples of how these API’s work? Please see the following: Breaking a File Making a File MARCXML COM Steaming Example Adding a new field Making …
When working with library data like ISBNs in Excel, there can be times when the ISBN data gets converted to something that looks like scientific notation. The issue is related to how Excel types data for display and formatting. Excel uses a predictive typing system — which is to say — that Excel reads the …
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