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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 > > >