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**NEW** SWORD Homepage

Please see http://www.swordapp.org/ for the new SWORD homepage.

What is SWORD?

SWORD is a lightweight protocol for deposit. SWORD is a profile of the Atom Publishing Protocol. SWORD is a JISC-funded project 2007-2008. SWORD stands for Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit. The motivator 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 a handy introduction to the SWORD project, please see the following paper in Ariadne (as deposited in CADAIR).

SWORD Protocol

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

Version 1.3 (draft):

Current stable version (1.2)

This document replaces:

Supported formats

SWORD Code

Code for implementing SWORD in DSpace, Fedora and EPrints is available from our Sourceforge project page, along with Java Libraries and the reference client code:

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

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

SWORD Demonstrators

Within the SWORD project, the profile was implemented in test versions of DSpace, intraLibrary, Fedora and EPrints. Instructions on how to access these can be found on the following page:

Intrallect have made available details about their implementation, including acceptance tests at the link below (please note their terms and conditions of use).

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 and implementations are happening outside of the project:

  • SWORD is bundled with the current release of DSpace, and will be part of forthcoming versions of EPrints, Fedora and intraLibrary

Case studies

Four Case studies have been commissioned. The following are available now:

Contact

The Project

SWORD Project information

Other relevant work

Dissemination and praise

  • IMS Global Learning Consortium Summit on Interoperability Now and Next, held in Birmingham, UK on 18 September 2008. Sarah Currier presented "SWORD: A Case Study in Application Profiling Atom Publishing Protocol for Repository Deposit", with live demo of SWORD desktop deposit to intraLibrary, and, with Scott Wilson (JISC-CETIS) gave a live demo of SWORD integration with FeedForward tool: "SWORD, Feedforward and IntraLibrary, an Integrated Demonstration". Slides for initial presentation here. Blogged by Scott here and Sheila MacNeill of JISC-CETIS here.
  • Overview and live demo of SWORD deposit included in Repository Fringe: "An Audience With... Sarah Currier (Intrallect Ltd): Web services and open access to learning and research materials - some case studies from education using intraLibrary Connect, including a preview of intraLibrary 3.0." Slides here. Google video stream of presentation here.
  • SWORD. Presentation at Third International Conference on Open Repositories 2008, 1-4 April 2008, Southampton, United Kingdom. Paper and presentation.
  • JISC-CETIS Metadata & Digital Repositories SIG Meeting, Birkbeck College, London, 12 February 2008. Sarah Currier presented "Easy Desktop Deposit for intraLibrary: An Implementation of SWORD", with live demo of SWORD desktop deposit to intraLibrary, and Scott Wilson (JISC-CETIS) gave a (sort of) live demo of SWORD integration with FeedForward tool, depositing into intraLibrary: "FeedForward Project". Slides and MP3s here.
  • SWORD - where we are now and how we got here. Presentation at the JISC CRIG Unconference, Birkbeck College, 6th December 2007.
  • 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
  • Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit (SWORD). Presentation at the Defining Image Access project meeting, Wolfson College, Oxford University, Oxford, 22nd June 2007.
  • Rachel Heery, Julie Allinson, Jim Downing, Christopher Gutteridge and Martin Morrey, Repository Deposit Service Description. Presented by Julie Allinson at Open Repositories 2007, 23-26 January 2007, San Antonio, Texas.
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