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I'm not sure what you're trying to work on but a number of languages have a features for this. As mentioned above ruby has the Faker gem, python has a few lorem libraries https://pypi.python.org/pypi/loremipsum/ and https://pypi.python.org/pypi/loremipsum/ In whatever language you could just prase a quick way for grabbing lorem text from http://www.lipsum.com/feed/xml On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Caplan, Priscilla <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Drupal has a lorem ipsum generator: > https://drupal.org/project/drupal_ipsum > > General purpose lorem ipsum generator: http://www.lipsum.com/ > > Priscilla Caplan > Florida State University Libraries > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > Sean Hannan > Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2013 7:00 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a thing? > > In ruby, there's the ffaker gem (https://github.com/EmmanuelOga/ffaker), > which itself is a port of Perl's Data::Faker. > > -Sean > ________________________________________ > From: Code for Libraries [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of > Pottinger, Hardy J. [[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2013 11:51 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a thing? > > 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 > -- *Scott Turnbull* APTrust Technical Lead [log in to unmask] www.aptrust.org 678-379-9488