Cool! Thanks, Kevin
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Joshua Welker <wel...@ucmo.edu> wrote: > Sure. It's not a fancy reusable class or anything though--just a simple PHP > script. I will try to put it up sometime today or tomorrow and will share a > link. > > Josh Welker > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of > Kevin S. Clarke > Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 10:34 AM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a thing? > > 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 <wel...@ucmo.edu> 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:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf > > Of Kevin S. Clarke > > Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2013 12:26 PM > > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > > 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. < > > pottinge...@missouri.edu> 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 <pottinge...@umsystem.edu> University of Missouri > > > Library Systems http://lso.umsystem.edu/~pottingerhj/ > > > https://MOspace.umsystem.edu/ > > > "Making things that are beautiful is real fun." --Lou Reed > > > > > >
