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Hiding 260/264 Field Pop-Up Suggestions on Alma

Posted on: 31 March 2020 Last updated on: 1 April 2020 Written by: Orangeaurochs

Below is a way to hide drop-down menus from popping up suggesting values in fields like the 260/264 field in the Alma Metadata Editor, e.g. this kind of thing: Please be aware that it does affect all “suggestion” drop-downs in…

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Brief Introduction to Regular Expressions

Posted on: 21 August 2015 Last updated on: 30 April 2018 Written by: Orangeaurochs

This is a web version for reference of a .docx file originally produced for the Mashcat 2012 session I did called How Big Is My Book. Resurrected to form the Manual for Meret, a regular expressions tutorial based on Marcedit…

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Articles about Linked Data, MARC, Bibframe, and Authority Control

Posted on: 10 October 2014 Last updated on: 10 October 2014 Written by: Orangeaurochs

Below are some articles I wrote for Catalogue & Index, the periodical of the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG). They are all now freely available as PDFs in UCL’s repository. The first three were written following CIG”s Linked Data:…

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MRV MARC Record Viewer

Posted on: 2 October 2012 Last updated on: 2 October 2012 Written by: Orangeaurochs

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…

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One record in lots of data formats

Posted on: 9 August 2012 Last updated on: 9 August 2012 Written by: Orangeaurochs

For a Dev8d session I did with Owen Stephens in February I presented data for a single book and followed how it had changed as standards changed, trying above to explain to non-cataloguers why catalogue records look and work the…

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MARC Viewer Codecademy Project

Posted on: 20 March 2012 Last updated on: 20 March 2012 Written by: Orangeaurochs

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:…

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Lodopac example searches

Posted on: 15 September 2011 Last updated on: 27 July 2012 Written by: Orangeaurochs

Yay, my entry for the Discovery & DevCSI Developers Competition– Lodopac– was awarded a commendation for its use of the Cambridge University Library (CUL) dataset. During the judging I was asked for searches which were known to work well- the…

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Sparql recipes for bibliographic data

Posted on: 5 August 2011 Last updated on: 30 April 2015 Written by: Orangeaurochs

One of the difficulties in searching RDF data is knowing what the data looks like. For instance, finding a book by its title means knowing something about what how a dataset has recorded the relationship between a book and its…

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Lodopac : simple Linked Open Data OPAC

Posted on: 31 July 2011 Last updated on: 31 July 2011 Written by: Orangeaurochs

Lodopac is my entry to the UK Discovery Developer Competition. Aside from obvious mocking of the name, comments on Lodopac are very welcome. If anyone  installs it locally, I’d also be very interested to know. About Lodopac Lodopac is a…

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Customizing Classification Web with Greasemonkey

Posted on: 24 June 2011 Last updated on: 24 June 2011 Written by: Orangeaurochs

Classification Web is ace, but there are a couple of things about the interface that annoy me and, in one colleague’s case, seriously put him off using it, in particular: The opening of a new tab/window when you click on…

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