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Years ago Bill Moen had a set of "radioactive" MARC records with unique tokens in all fields, to test Z39.50 retrieval. I don't know whether they were ever released anywhere, but I see the specs are here: http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc111015/m1/1/ Peter Peter Binkley Digital Initiatives Technology Librarian Information Technology Services [log in to unmask] 2-10K Cameron Library University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2J8 phone 780-492-3743 fax 780-492-9243 On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Joshua Welker <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I checked out the Eclipse option and was not able to get much use out of > it. > Maybe someone else will have better luck? It doesn't seem to align very > well > with a library use case. > > Josh Welker > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > Ben > Companjen > Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 11:14 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a thing? > > Hi Josh, > > Before you start coding: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17106/how-to-generate-sample-xml-documen > ts-from-their-dtd-or-xsd suggests that Eclipse can generate XML from an > DTD > or XSD file. First try with the EAC XSD shows I need to try other options, > but it's promising. > > (It's still an interesting problem to try to tackle yourself, of course.) > > Ben > > On 09-12-13 17:59, "Joshua Welker" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > >It's hard-coded to generate the specific elements. But your way sounds > >a lot cleaner, so I might try to do that instead :) It will be more > >difficult initially but much easier once I start implementing other > >metadata formats. > > > >Josh Welker > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > >Ben Companjen > >Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 10:52 AM > >To: [log in to unmask] > >Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a thing? > > > >Cool! > >My first thought on this topic was: give the program an XML schema, and > >generate possible documents with the correct datatypes etc. (Something > >like that must exist somewhere, right?) Does it happen to work anything > >like that, or is it hardcoded to generate these specific elements? > > > >Ben > > > >On 09-12-13 17:27, "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 > >>> > >