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-	== About the project ==	+	== SWORD ==
-	Duration: The project will run for 6 months, from 1st March 2007 until 31 August 2007 - extended until 31 October 2007	+	* SWORD is a lightweight protocol for deposit.
		+	* SWORD is a profile of the Atom Publishing Protocol.
		+	* SWORD is a JISC-funded initiative.
		+	* SWORD stands for Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit.
-	The project will be led by [http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ UKOLN]	+	The motivation for SWORD is 'lowering the barriers to deposit', principally deposit into repositories, but potentially deposit into any system which wants to receive content from remote sources.
-	=== Project description ===	+	For further information see the [http://www.swordapp.org/ SWORD Homepage] (http://www.swordapp.org/)
-	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.	+	For project background, see: [[SWORD Project]]
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-	=== Project background ===	+
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-	SWORD will be continuing the activities of the the JISC Digital Repository Programme [[Deposit API]] working group.	+
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-	See the [[Deposit API]] pages for more information, including the:	+
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-	* [[Deposit API serialisation]]	+
-	* [[Deposit API deposit serialisation]]	+
-	* [[Deposit API explain serialisation]]	+
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-	=== Partners ===	+
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-	* UKOLN	+
-	* EPrints, University of Southampton	+
-	* Intrallect Ltd.	+
-	* Centre for Advanced Software and Intelligent Systems (CASIS), University of Wales Aberystwyth	+
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-	=== Contact ===	+
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-	* [[User:JulieAllinson|Julie Allinson]], UKOLN, University of Bath <[mailto:j.allinson@gmail.com j.allinson@gmail.com]>	+
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-	=== Project documents ===	+
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-	* [http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/sword/sword-project-plan-02.pdf SWORD project plan v2] (pdf)	+
-	* [http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/sword/sword-workpackages.pdf SWORD workpackages] (pdf)	+
-	* [[Progress report 2007-08]]	+
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-	=== Project meetings ===	+
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-	* [[SWORD meeting 2007-04]]	+
-	* [[SWORD telephone meeting 2007-05-11]]	+
-	* [[SWORD telephone meeting 2007-06-15]]	+
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-	== Workpackage One - standards and protocol ==	+
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-	=== Deposit protocol ===	+
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-	The Deposit specification/protocol for the SWORD is a profile of the Atom Publishing Protocol	+
-	* [[SWORD APP Profile 1.0|SWORD APP Profile Version 1.0]] - released 12th October 2007	+
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-	This document replaces:	+
-	* previous working drafts: [[SWORD APP Profile 0.7|0.7]], [[SWORD APP Profile 0.6|0.6]], [[SWORD APP Profile 0.5|0.5]], [[SWORD APP Profile 0.1|0.1]], [[SWORD APP Profile 0.2|0.2]], [[SWORD APP Profile 0.3|0.3]], [[SWORD APP Profile 0.4|0.4]]	+
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-	=== Parameters ===	+
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-	* [[SWORD parameters]] - outlines the parameters/requirements for the SWORD protocol	+
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-	=== Existing standards ===	+
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-	* [[SWORD Standards|Relevant standards]]	+
-	* [[SWORD Evaluate existing standards|Evaluation of existing standards]]	+
-	** [[SWORD APP evaluation]]	+
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-	=== Supported formats ===	+
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-	* [[SWORD formats]]	+
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-	== Workpackage Two - technical development ==	+
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-	Current status, 21st September 2007: Work on the technical development is in the final testing stages and code will be released shortly. Intrallect have made available details about their implementation, including acceptance tests at the link below (please note their terms and conditions of use).	+
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-	* [[intrallect_development|Intrallect development]]	+
-	* SWORD downloads	+
-	* Accessing the SWORD implementations	+
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-	== Workpackage Three - user testing and feedback ==	+
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-	A number of case studies will appear here ...	+
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-	== Workpackage Four - Community engagement and dissemination ==	+
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-	* Rachel Heery, Julie Allinson, Jim Downing, Christopher Gutteridge and Martin Morrey, [http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/j.allinson/or2007-deposit.pdf Repository Deposit Service Description] (MIME type: application/pdf). Presented by Julie Allinson at [http://openrepositories.org/ Open Repositories 2007], 23-26 January 2007, San Antonio, Texas. Also available on [http://www.slideshare.net/j.allinson/repository-deposit-service-description Slideshare]	+
-	* [http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/j.allinson/SWORD-2007-06-22.pdf 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 [http://www.slideshare.net/j.allinson/sword-2007-06-22 Slideshare]	+
-	* [http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/j.allinson/SWORD-cetis-2007-06-29.pdf 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 [http://www.slideshare.net/j.allinson/sword-cetis-2007-06-29-73233/ Slideshare]	+
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-	== Other relevant work ==	+
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-	* [[OAI-ORE]]	+
-	* [[SOURCE]] project	+
-	* HAL (http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/) - in French	+
-	* [http://www.depot.edina.ac.uk/ The Depot]	+
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-	* 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 [http://frittato.wordpress.com/2007/10/12/firefox-addon-for-web-service-interaction/ here]	+
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-	=== Interest in SWORD ===	+
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-	Blog posts:	+
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-	* 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	+

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SWORD

• SWORD is a lightweight protocol for deposit.
• SWORD is a profile of the Atom Publishing Protocol.
• SWORD is a JISC-funded initiative.
• SWORD stands for Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit.

The motivation for SWORD is 'lowering the barriers to deposit', principally deposit into repositories, but potentially deposit into any system which wants to receive content from remote sources.

For further information see the SWORD Homepage (http://www.swordapp.org/)

For project background, see: SWORD Project