Slides from a NASIG Continuing Education Webinar presented 5/18/2018. Slides provide content and links to short videos demoing each topic.

1. MAKING COMPLICATED
PROCESSES SIMPLE
A LOOK AT HOW MARCEDIT 7 IS
EXPANDING THE USER TOOL KIT A LOOK AT
HOW MARCEDIT 7 IS EXPANDING THE USER
TOOL KIT

2. PLUG FOR NASIG
 Because of time, I’ve limited my discussion to three new or significantly enhanced functions that I believe
could help catalogers/metadata wranglers. I’ll be exploring these, and other topics in more depth at the
NASIG preconference on MarcEdit 7 later this June. If you are in Atlanta, please feel free to drop in and
say hi.
 Additionally – I’ll be posting these slides on slideshare, and with them, I’ve embedded shorter, targeted
demonstrations of each element/task covered.

3. PROJECT
FLUFFY
MUPPET (AKA
– MARCEDIT
7)

4. USER DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT GOALS
 MarcEdit 7 development focused on 3 main themes
 Addressing Accessibility Issues and offer options specifically targeted as ease of use and complimenting
Accessibility options found in the Operating System [click]
 Moving help closer to the User (though topical shortcuts, the help bar, Installation Agent, etc.)
 Simplify Complex Processes. Specifically…
 * Expanding linked data options, and smoothing the experience
 * Making issues like working with XML/JSON data easier
 Simplifying and Expanding Integrations (with ILS systems, Open Refine)
 * Enabling light-weight clustering editing/selection
* Those covered today

5. TOPICS TO HIGHLIGHT (LINKED DATA PROCESSING)
 Linked Data Reconciliation in MarcEdit
Using a rules file
(https://github.com/reeset/linked_data_rules),
MarcEdit supports reconciliation practices for both
bibliographic and authority data across nearly all
collections defined in the PCC’s Formulating URI
document:
https://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/bibframe/TaskGroups/f
ormulate_obtain_URI_guide.pdf

6. MARCEDIT 7: LINKED DATA DEMONSTRATION [YOUTUBE]
URL: https://youtu.be/4Ll1GBuIl1s

7. TOPICS TO HIGHLIGHT (XML/JSON PROCESSING)
 XML/JSON Processing Wizard
Wizard allows users to us a wizard to create translations from XML or
JSON to MARC without the need to write code or XSLT or XQuery

8. MARCEDIT 7: XML/JSON PROFILING WIZARD DEMO [YOUTUBE]
URL: https://youtu.be/WalUFZ3mXKw

9. TOPICS TO HIGHLIGHT (CLUSTERING TOOLS)
 MarcEdit Clustering Tools
This provide a light weight method for making
changes across clusters of data or extracting
recordsets based on the clustering of a specific set of
fields and subfields. Formats that are supported
include MARC (mrc), MarcEdit’s mnemonic format
(mrk), and tab delimited files. I’ll be expanding this
to Excel once I finish adding code to create Excel
documents after processing.

10. MARCEDIT 7: CLUSTERING TOOLS DEMONSTRATION [YOUTUBE]
URL: https://youtu.be/3Pf-HCdFOp4

11. MY CONTACT
INFORMATION
TERRY REESE
REESET@GMAIL.COM OR
REESE.2179@OSU.EDU