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Well, I was mostly filling a csv file with variations of a single row. But Kevin, I like the way you think, that *would* be cool. For my use case faker ought to do just fine. But, shiny new project... Shiny... --Hardy Sent from my iPad > On Dec 8, 2013, at 12:27 PM, "Kevin S. Clarke" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > 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 >>