I can't help wondering what the half-life of a radioactive MARC record is.
My guess is it is either really, really short or really, really long. ;-)
Roy


On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Peter Binkley <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> 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
> > >>>
> >
> >
>