Re: [CODE4LIB] automatic greeking of sample files

2011-12-13 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
On Dec 12, 2011, at 6:35 PM, Michael B. Klein wrote: > I've altered my previous function (https://gist.github.com/1468557) into > something that's pretty much a straight letter-substitution cipher. This is what I ended up using https://github.com/tingletech/greeker.py/blob/3ba1e84bc1ea51fa501c1a4

Re: [CODE4LIB] automatic greeking of sample files

2011-12-12 Thread Michael B. Klein
I've altered my previous function (https://gist.github.com/1468557) into something that's pretty much a straight letter-substitution cipher. It could be turned back into plaintext pretty easily by someone who really wanted to (by using frequency analysis and other hints like single-letter words), b

Re: [CODE4LIB] automatic greeking of sample files

2011-12-12 Thread Brian Tingle
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Nate Vack wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Brian Tingle > wrote: > > > Potential contributors of specimens would have to be okay with the fact > > that a determined person could recreate their original records. > > To make things simpler, you might just

Re: [CODE4LIB] automatic greeking of sample files

2011-12-12 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Dec 12, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Brian Tingle wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Michael B. Klein wrote: > >> Here's a snippet that will completely randomize the contents of an >> arbitrary string while replacing the general flow (vowels replaced with >> vowels, consonants replaced with conso

Re: [CODE4LIB] automatic greeking of sample files

2011-12-12 Thread Nate Vack
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Brian Tingle wrote: > Potential contributors of specimens would have to be okay with the fact > that a determined person could recreate their original records. To make things simpler, you might just see how many contributors would just be OK with the original rec

Re: [CODE4LIB] automatic greeking of sample files

2011-12-12 Thread Brian Tingle
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Michael B. Klein wrote: > Here's a snippet that will completely randomize the contents of an > arbitrary string while replacing the general flow (vowels replaced with > vowels, consonants replaced with consonants (with case retained in both > instances), digits re

Re: [CODE4LIB] automatic greeking of sample files

2011-12-12 Thread Michael B. Klein
Hi Brian, Your contributors might not consider Pig Latin, or anything else that can be easily turned back into plaintext, to be "not releasing their actual records." :-) Here's a snippet that will completely randomize the contents of an arbitrary string while replacing the general flow (vowels re

[CODE4LIB] automatic greeking of sample files

2011-12-09 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
Hi, I'm now in the group that produces XTF, and for XTF4.0, I'm thinking about updating the EAD XSLT based on the Online Archive of California's stylesheets. For our EAD samples that we distribute with the XTF tutorial, we are using 6 EAD files from the library of congress (which presumably are