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


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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
> >>>
>
>