Cool!
Thanks, Kevin
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Joshua Welker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Sure. It's not a fancy reusable class or anything though--just a simple PHP
> script. I will try to put it up sometime today or tomorrow and will share a
> link.
>
> Josh Welker
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Kevin S. Clarke
> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 10:34 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a thing?
>
> Nice! Are you going to put the code on GitHub (or some such place)? I'd
> be
> interested in tracking...
>
> Kevin
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Joshua Welker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Challenge accepted.
> >
> > http://library.ucmo.edu/dev/metadata-generator.php
> >
> > Obviously in the prototype phase, but it works. Only MODS is available
> > for now, and you can only select top-level elements (all child
> > elements of the top-level selections will be auto-generated). I will
> > try to expand it to more than just MODS. Admittedly, I know very
> > little about METS, so I will need some assistance if I am going to make
> > one of those.
> >
> > I'll eventually host this somewhere else once it's done, so don't
> > bookmark it.
> >
> > Josh Welker
> > Information Technology Librarian
> > James C. Kirkpatrick Library
> > University of Central Missouri
> > Warrensburg, MO 64093
> > JCKL 2260
> > 660.543.8022
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> > Of Kevin S. Clarke
> > Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2013 12:26 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a thing?
> >
> > When I first read this, I was imagining not having to give it your
> > metadata but native support for most of our commonly used metadata
> > records... so the interface is: "Give me 100 MODS records" and it
> > spits that out... You could get fancy and say, "Give me X number of
> > METS records that wrap TIFFs and JPGs and that uses MODS, etc."
> > That's not as trivial as hooking into an lorem ipsum machine, but it'd be
> > pretty cool, imho.
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Pottinger, Hardy J. <
> > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, I asked this on Google Plus earlier today, but I figured I'd
> > > better take this question here: my brain is trying to tell me that
> > > there's a service or app that makes "fake" metadata, kind of like
> > > "Lorem Ipsum" but you feed it your fields and it gives you nonsense
> > > metadata back. But, it looks right enough for testing. Yesterday, I
> > > had to make up about 50 rows of fake metadata to test some code that
> > > handles paging in a UI, and I had to make it all up by hand. This
> > > hurts my soul. Someone please tell me such a service exists, and
> > > link me to it, so I never have to do this again. Or else, I may just
> > > make such a service, to save us all. But I don't want to go coding
> > > some new service if it already exists, because that sort of thing is
> for
> > > chumps.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > HARDY POTTINGER <[log in to unmask]> University of Missouri
> > > Library Systems http://lso.umsystem.edu/~pottingerhj/
> > > https://MOspace.umsystem.edu/
> > > "Making things that are beautiful is real fun." --Lou Reed
> > >
> >
>
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