The 7th International Conference on Open Repositories in Edinburgh is less than a week away now! Here is a list of SWORD related presentations at the conference by both the SWORD team, and others: OER: Workshop: Multi-repository Deposit to OER and IR at the Same Time: Monday, 09/Jul/2012: 9:30am – 12:30pm SWORDv2 for research data management:… Read More »
We’re pleased to advertise the following: Dryad (http://datadryad.org) is a repository for data associated with scientific publications. As Dryad grows, it is becoming more important to use established standards for exchanging data with other systems. Although Dryad is built on DSpace, the SWORD support in DSpace is not sophisticated enough to handle Dryad’s data model.… Read More »
A new paper about repository deposit scenarios has just been published in this month’s D-Lib: SWORD: Facilitating Deposit Scenarios (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january12/lewis/01lewis.html / doi:10.1045/january2012-lewis) The SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit) protocol was designed to facilitate the interoperable deposit of resources into systems such as repositories. The use of an interoperable standard eases the burden of developing… Read More »
We recently posted a survey about ‘Data Deposit’. The survey is still open if you wish to respond. The first question in the survey asks: “How much do you know about SWORD?” We asked this simple question as we wanted to find out the general level of knowledge about SWORD within the community who responded.… Read More »
The SWORD v2 project has been asked by the JISC to look into the applicability of the SWORD protocol for depositing Research Data. The SWORD protocol has always been agnostic about the type of resource it is depositing, however its initial development stemmed from a requirement for the deposit of scholarly communications outputs into repositories… Read More »
As part of the SWORD v2 project finding, resources were allocated to implement it in a number of repository platforms. First off the block to release SWORD v2 implementations as part of their core functionality are EPrints and DSpace: Download: EPrints 3.3.6+ Download: DSpace 1.8+ There are also client code library implementations available if you wish to… Read More »
Everyone is home from Open Repositories 2011 now. As usual it was a great conference, and we were once again surprised by how often SWORD is referred to in different presentations. SWORD was promoted by the team twice at the conference: The SWORD Course: The course was presented by Stuart Lewis and Richard Jones. The slides… Read More »
Following a meeting of the SWORD v2 developers earlier this week, development work to implement the proposed SWORD v2 standard has now started. Our aim is to have things to show by the time of the Open Repositories 2011 conference in June this year. The SWORD v2 standard is not yet finalised, however it is… Read More »
SWORD now has a wikipedia entry! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWORD_(Protocol) The page does not have much detail on at the moment, so if you have a minute or two, please take a look at the page, and see if you could add / edit / correct / improve / enhance the page. If you know of any other… Read More »
As part of the ongoing SWORD development process, we’re hoping to bring you a set of short case studies demonstrating the wide variety of different resource deposit use cases that SWORD enables. In the first of these case studies, we have a quick chat with the technical architect for the Public Knowledge Project, Alec Smecher.… Read More »