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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