I have come up with two bookmarklets that allow you to search for an author’s works in a library catalogue from the author’s Wikipedia page in one click. A bookmarklet is a browser bookmark that does something with the page…
RDF Viewer
I have programmed a simple RDF viewer called RDFV RDF Viewer for viewing RDF. Copy and paste the contents of an RDF turtle or n-triples file into the box. The viewer will let you click on an element to highlight…
MRV MARC Record Viewer
I have finally completed a multiple record MARC Record Viewer. This has been rather long in the making but is essentially a quick and practical tool for looking at and assessing MARC records without having to load them into specialist…
How big is my book: Mashcat session
At Mashcat on 5 July in Cambridge I gave an afternoon session on getting computer readable information from the textual information held in MARC21 300 fields using Javascript and regular expressions. I intended this to be useful for cataloguers who…
MARC Viewer Codecademy Project
I have created a Codecademy project (with a lot of help in corrections and improvements from Esther Arens!) that builds a short script to read a raw MARC record and display it in a more readable format. Try it here:…
Cataloguing coding
I am not a trained programmer, coding is not part of my job description, and I have little direct access to cataloguing and metadata databases at work outside of normal catalogue editing and talking to the systems team, but I…