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About the project

Duration: The project runs for 6 months, from 1st March 2007 until 31 August 2007 - extended until 31 October 2007, with case studies to follow by January 2008

The project is 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 is continuing the activities of the the JISC Digital Repository Programme Deposit API working group.

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

Partners

UKOLN (Julie Allinson)
EPrints, University of Southampton (Les Carr and Sebastien Francois)
Intrallect Ltd. (Martin Morrey and Sarah Currier)
Centre for Advanced Software and Intelligent Systems (CASIS), University of Wales Aberystwyth (Neil Taylor, Stuart Lewis, Richard Jones and Glen Robson)

Contact

Julie Allinson, <j.allinson@gmail.com>

Workpackage One - standards and protocol

Deposit protocol

The SWORD protocol for deposit is a profile of the Atom Publishing Protocol

SWORD APP Profile Version 1.0 - released 12th October 2007 (announcement)

This document replaces:

previous working drafts: 0.7, 0.6, 0.5, 0.4, 0.3, 0.2, 0.1

Parameters

SWORD parameters - outlines the parameters/requirements for the SWORD protocol

Existing standards

Supported formats

SWORD formats

Workpackage Two - technical development

This work package involves implementation of the SWORD protocol in DSpace, IntraLibrary, Fedora and Eprints and the development of a SWORD demonstration client for depositing to these, and other, installations.

SWORD downloads

Coming soon ...

SWORD implementations

Intrallect have made available details about their implementation, including acceptance tests at the link below (please note their terms and conditions of use).

Intrallect development

SWORD demonstration clients

Coming soon ...

Desktop client
Online client

Workpackage Three - user testing and feedback

Case studies

Four case studies have been commissioned and will appear here in early 2008. Further information about these case studies will be made available soon ...

Interoperability testing workshop

There will be an interoperability testing workshop on December 6th.

Workpackage Four - Community engagement and 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

Workpackage Five - Project management

The project manager is Julie Allinson <j.allinson@gmail.com>

Project documents

Project meetings

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)
Apache Abdera project (http://incubator.apache.org/abdera/) - implementing ATOM and APP
Poster (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2691) - a Firefox add-on that can be used to test *some* SWORD functionality, see blog post here

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

Retrieved from "/repositories/digirep/index/SWORD"

 == Workpackage Two - technical development ==
-Current status, 21st September 2007: Work on the technical development is in the final testing stages and code will be released shortly.
+This work package involves implementation of the SWORD protocol in DSpace, IntraLibrary, Fedora and Eprints and the development of a SWORD demonstration client for depositing to these, and other, installations.
 === SWORD downloads ===