 |
 |
Not metadata, but still pretty fun - http://meettheipsums.com - some curated ipsums. Brian Zelip --- Graduate Assistant Scholarly Commons, University Library University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Pottinger, Hardy J. < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Well it's not a web service, but it does make lots of fake metadata for > batch loading into DSpace. I will just leave this here: > > https://github.com/hardyoyo/random_dspace_batch_metadata > > Thanks for the lead on the Faker gem! This was a fun diversion. I > especially like the titles this script mints. :-) > > A possible improvement would be to randomly reuse author names, so author > facets have more than one item. I'll do that if I ever have to test author > facets. > > --Hardy > > Sent from my iPad > > On Dec 9, 2013, at 7:36 PM, "Roy Tennant" <[log in to unmask]<mailto: > [log in to unmask]>> wrote: > > I ask you, would you want to work all day sitting on top of a huge pile of > radioactive MARC records? I sure wouldn't... > Roy > > > On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Bill Dueber <[log in to unmask]<mailto: > [log in to unmask]>> wrote: > > 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]<mailto: > [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] > <mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto: > [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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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 >