Welcome to SWORD APP

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:

• http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/SWORD

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