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
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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. <
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> 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.
>
>
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