SWORDv3 is a proposed revision of the specification to break the dependence on Atom and the Atom Publishing Protocol, and to engineer the protocol around JSON and a pure RESTful approach.
You can read the working documents here.
The documents themselves:
- The proposed spec (v4 – 2018-05-08)
- The Protocol Behaviours – a companion to the spec which expands the requirements out in full, per operation
- Our usage patterns and requirements analysis
- SWORD community discussion document
The research, statements and use cases upon which the new proposal is based:
- An annotated version of the current SWORDv2 spec
- Jisc’s statement of requirements, working document
- Data Deposit Scenarios blog post
- SWORD: Facilitating Deposit Scenarios in DLib
- SWORD community consultation document from Jisc
Other documents:
- v1 of the proposed spec (now superseded, see above)
- v2 of the proposed spec (now superseded, see above)
- An introduction to the specification proposal (no longer relevant to current draft)
- v3 of rhe proposed spec (now superseded, see above)
If you have any comments about the specification, or would like to propose amendments, please feel free to open an issue on our issue tracker in our github repository: https://github.com/swordapp/swordv3