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1 About the project
2 Workpackage One
3 Workpackage Two
- 3.1 Technical development
4 Dissemination
5 Other relevant work
- 5.1 Interest in SWORD

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:

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)

Project meetings

Workpackage One

Parameters

SWORD parameters

Existing standards

Deposit protocol

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

Additional work

SWORD formats

Workpackage Two

Technical development

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