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Contents 1 About the project 1.1 Project description 1.2 Project background 1.3 Partners 1.4 Contact 1.5 Project documents 1.6 Project meetings 2 Workpackage One - standards and protocol 2.1 Parameters 2.2 Existing standards 2.3 Deposit protocol 2.4 Additional work 3 Workpackage Two - technical development 4 Workpackage Three - user testing and feedback 5 Workpackage Four - Community engagement and dissemination 6 Dissemination 7 Other relevant work 7.1 Interest in SWORD

About the project

Duration: The project will run for 6 months, from 1st March 2007 until 31 August 2007 - extended until 31 October 2007

The project will be led by UKOLN

Project description

SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit) will take forward the Deposit protocol developed by a small working group as part of the JISC Digital Repositories Programme by implementing it as a lightweight web-service in four major repository software platforms: EPrints, DSpace, Fedora and IntraLibrary. The existing protocol documentation will be finalised by project partners and a prototype ‘smart deposit’ tool will be developed to facilitate easier and more effective population of repositories. The project intends to take an iterative approach to developing and revising the protocol, web-services and client implementation through evaluative testing and feedback mechanisms. Community acceptance and take-up will be sought through dissemination activities. The project is led by UKOLN, University of Bath, with partners at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, the University of Southampton and Intrallect Ltd. The project aims to improve the efficiency and quality of repository deposit and to diversity and expedite the options for timely population of repositories with content whilst promoting a common deposit interface and supporting the Information Environment principles of interoperability.

Project background

SWORD will be continuing the activities of the the JISC Digital Repository Programme Deposit API working group.

See the Deposit API pages for more information, including the:

• Deposit API serialisation
• Deposit API deposit serialisation
• Deposit API explain serialisation

Partners

• UKOLN
• EPrints, University of Southampton
• Intrallect Ltd.
• Centre for Advanced Software and Intelligent Systems (CASIS), University of Wales Aberystwyth

Contact

• Julie Allinson, UKOLN, University of Bath <j.allinson@ukoln.ac.uk>

Project documents

• SWORD project plan v2 (175KB, MIME type: application/msword)
• SWORD workpackages (99KB, MIME type: application/msword)
• Progress report 2007-08

Project meetings

• SWORD meeting 2007-04
• SWORD telephone meeting 2007-05-11
• SWORD telephone meeting 2007-06-15

Workpackage One - standards and protocol

Parameters

• SWORD parameters

Existing standards

• Relevant standards
• Evaluate existing standards
  • SWORD APP evaluation

Deposit protocol

• Finalise deposit specification/protocol
  • Atom Publishing Protocol, profiled in the SWORD APP Profile
  • Current working draft: SWORD APP Profile 0.6 (previous versions 0.5, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4)

Additional work

• SWORD formats

Workpackage Two - technical development

• Intrallect development
• EPrints
• DSpace / Fedora
• Reference Client

Workpackage Three - user testing and feedback

Workpackage Four - Community engagement and dissemination

Dissemination

• Rachel Heery, Julie Allinson, Jim Downing, Christopher Gutteridge and Martin Morrey, Repository Deposit Service Description (MIME type: application/pdf). Presented by Julie Allinson at Open Repositories 2007, 23-26 January 2007, San Antonio, Texas. Also available on Slideshare
• Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit (SWORD) (MIME type: application/pdf). Presentation at the Defining Image Access project meeting, Wolfson College, Oxford University, Oxford, 22nd June 2007. Also available on Slideshare
• Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit (SWORD). Presentation at the JISC CETIS EC and MDR SIG meeting, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, 29th June 2007. Also available on Slideshare

Other relevant work

• OAI-ORE
• SOURCE project
• HAL (http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/) - in French
• The Depot

• Google Data APIs Protocol (http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/)
  • YouTube video from Google Developers Day (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4SWAfisH-8)
  • Authentication extension (http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/reference.html#Authentication)

Interest in SWORD

Blog posts:

• Pete Johnston, eFoundations: http://efoundations.typepad.com/efoundations/2007/07/putting-them-wi.html
• David Davies' Weblog: http://david.davies.name/weblog/2007/06/30/how-project-sword-restored-my-faith-in-educational-technology/
• Ed Summers: http://www.inkdroid.org/journal
• Pete Sefton: http://ptsefton.com/blog/2007/08/09/09-23-19.208941