Well, I was mostly filling a csv file with variations of a single row. But Kevin, I like the way you think, that *would* be cool.

For my use case faker ought to do just fine. But, shiny new project... Shiny...

--Hardy

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> On Dec 8, 2013, at 12:27 PM, "Kevin S. Clarke" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> 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]>
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>>