The sad thing is that the Library of Congress spent billions of dollars of
taxpayer money building a safe storage facility in the stable caves under
Dublin, OH, but now no one will let them bury them there.


On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Roy Tennant <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> > Peter Binkley
> > Digital Initiatives Technology Librarian
> > Information Technology Services
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
> > 2-10K Cameron Library
> > University of Alberta
> > Edmonton, Alberta
> > Canada T6G 2J8
> >
> > phone 780-492-3743
> > fax 780-492-9243
> >
> >
> > 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
> > > >>>
> > >
> > >
> >
>



-- 
Bill Dueber
Library Systems Programmer
University of Michigan Library