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Contents 1 About the project 1.1 Project description 1.2 Project background 1.3 Partners 1.4 Contact 2 Workpackage One - standards and protocol 2.1 Deposit protocol 2.2 Parameters 2.3 Existing standards 2.4 Supported formats 3 Workpackage Two - technical development 3.1 SWORD downloads 3.2 SWORD implementations 3.3 SWORD demonstration clients 4 Workpackage Three - user testing and feedback 4.1 Case studies 4.2 Interoperability testing workshop 5 Workpackage Four - Community engagement and dissemination 6 Workpackage Five - Project management 6.1 Project documents 6.2 Project meetings 7 Other relevant work 7.1 Interest in SWORD

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:

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

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 Deposit specification/protocol for the SWORD 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

• Relevant standards
• Evaluation of existing standards
  • SWORD APP evaluation

Supported formats

• SWORD formats

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.

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

• SWORD project plan v2 (pdf)
• SWORD workpackages (pdf)
• Progress report 2007-08
• Progress report 2007-11

Project meetings

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

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