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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 Aberystwyth University, 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), Aberystwyth

University (Neil Taylor, Stuart Lewis, Richard Jones and Glen Robson)

Contact

Workpackage One - standards and protocol

Deposit protocol

The SWORD protocol for deposit is a profile of the Atom Publishing Protocol. Current version:

This document replaces:

Parameters

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

Existing standards

Supported formats

Workpackage Two - technical development

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

SWORD downloads

These are available from our Sourceforge project page:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/sword-app/ (from the downloads area)

EPrints code is also available from http://files.eprints.org/305/

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).

Accessing the implementations

Further information is available about how to access the current SWORD implementations:

SWORD demonstration clients

There are two demonstration clients which can be used to test implementations within the SWORD project and are freely available for wider use.

Other clients developed outside of the project are also in development currently ...

Workpackage Three - user testing and feedback

Case studies

Four case studies have been commissioned and will appear here in early 2008. Further information is available here:

CRIG unconference workshop

There was a discussion of SWORD at the CRIG Unconference on December 6th:

SWORD at the unconference

Workpackage Four - Community engagement and dissemination

Workpackage Five - Project management

Project documents

Project meetings

Other relevant work

Interest in SWORD

Blog posts and publicity:

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