Welcome to SWORD APP
Welcome to the SWORD web site. Here you will find out what SWORD is, who created and funded it, and how to make use of SWORD.
SWORD v2.0: Deposit Lifecycle White Paper
*NEW* - 'SWORD v2.0: Deposit Lifecycle' (PDF). This document is a white paper prepared by Richard Jones outlining how the "next version of SWORD will push the standard towards supporting full repository deposit lifecycles by using update, retrieve and delete extensions to the specification". The paper was released on 5th July 2010 at the PASIG meeting at Open Repositories 2010 in Madrid, Spain.
We are now inviting the community to comment on the SWORD v2.0 white paper. Please leave your comments on our Jiscpress version of the document at http://sword2depositlifecycle.jiscpress.org/
What is SWORD?
SWORD is a lightweight protocol for depositing content from one location to another. It stands for Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit and is a profile of the Atom Publishing Protocol (known as APP or ATOMPUB).
SWORD has been funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee to develop the SWORD profile and a number of demonstration implementations.
The SWORD vision is 'lowering the barriers to deposit', principally for depositing content (any content!) into repositories, but potentially for depositing into any system which wants to receive content from remote sources.
For a handy introduction to the SWORD project, please see the following:
- What is SWORD?
- SWORD: Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit Ariadne, 2008 (also deposited in CADAIR)
- SWORD: Cutting Through the Red Tape to Populate Learning Materials Repositories JISC e-Learning Forum, Feb 2009
For pages relating to the SWORD funded projects - legacy documents, project info, meetings etc. please see our wiki pages:
SWORD now has a twitter feed. Please follow us and say hello, and use the #swordapp tag if you're doing anything with SWORD
- http://twitter.com/swordapp
- Check out the #swordapp twittering
