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…
Brief Introduction to Regular Expressions
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…
Articles about Linked Data, MARC, Bibframe, and Authority Control
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:…
Importing URLs into a large MARC file with Marcedit
This is a brief documentation of how I used Marcedit to import correct URLs from an Excel spreadsheet into a large file of MARC records. The name of the ebook supplier has been changed to protect the innocent. The values…
Bookmarklet to search Google Books from an HTML element
Install the bookmarklet by dragging the link to your bookmarks toolbar: Search on Google Books Or, create a bookmark manually, and change the Location property to the following: javascript:(function(){window.location=”https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=isbn:”+document.getElementById(“isbn”);})() To use it, go to a page which has an element…
RLUK/European Library linked data sample
RLUK and the European Library (of which the RLUK is now a member) have just released 17 million records as linked open data. They have released three sets (via Mike Mertens), for which links to the RDF turtle versions are…
Bumblebees in Sandy, 2013
Last I managed to see six species of bumblebee in Sandy* and another one further afield in Bedfordshire**. This year I managed to spot eight in Sandy, all but one in the garden. I’m hoping to have lots more wild…
Automatic table of contents for RDA Toolkit workflows
Below is described a way to add tables of contents to RDA Toolkit workflows automatically, i.e. without manually adding anchors and creating a list. You can see an example of it action on this workflow (although of course I can’t…
Minimising images in a Twitter feed on Firefox
Recent changes to the standard Twitter timeline have resulted in all images in posts being expanded, thereby interrupting the compressed textual display. Here is a simple way to minimise embedded images in posts on a Twitter feed on Firefox. It…
Red Mason Bee Sealing a Nest
This year I have a bee hotel attached to the house which provides somewhere for solitary bees to nest. The most commonly seen garden solitary bee is the red mason bee (Osmia bicornis) which finds cavities, such as in walls…