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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 Workpackages 2.1 Workpackage 1 2.2 Workpackage 2 2.3 Workpackage 3 2.4 Workpackage 4 2.5 Workpackage 5 3 Dissemination 4 Other relevant work

About the project

Duration: The project will run for 6 months, from 1st March 2007 until 31 August 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, draft (175KB, MIME type: application/msword)
• SWORD workpackages (99KB, MIME type: application/msword)

Project meetings

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

Workpackages

Workpackage 1

• SWORD parameters

• Evaluate existing standards
  • SWORD APP evaluation {AtomPub)

• Finalise deposit specification/protocol
  • SWORD APP Profile 0.4 Current working draft (previous versions: 0.1, 0.2, 0.3)

• SWORD formats

Workpackage 2

Workpackage 3

Workpackage 4

Workpackage 5

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

Other relevant work

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