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


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Kevin S. Clarke
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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
> >
>