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 »
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 »
Are you coming to the Open Repositories 2011 conference? If so, you might be interested in the ‘Developers Challenge‘. The theme of the the challenge this year is: “Show us the future of repositories!” This competition will be fascinating, as it will allow repository users, managers, and developers to team up in order to show us… Read More »
Since the very first SWORD project, there have been two demonstration SWORD servers provided. These were funded by the original SWORD project. They have been in existence for a number of years, and have served as excellent demonstration servers for SWORD clients. However, they have now had to be retired. http://dspace.swordapp.org/ used to provide a… 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 »
We’re looking to improve the SWORD website and inspire new uses of SWORD by collecting and publishing a collection of SWORD case studies. We’d love to hear from you if you’ve written a SWORD client, or made use of an existing client in a new way. There is a lot of good work being undertaken… Read More »
The complete slides and videos from the SWORD course are now online. To access the course materials use the ‘The SWORD Course‘ link in the menu bar at the top of the site. Here is an overview of the materials available: An Introduction to SWORD: Gives an overview of SWORD, the rationale behind its creation,… Read More »