Advocacy
Advocacy, dissemination and praise.
- 'EasyDeposit' – SWORD deposit tool creator from Stuart Lewis. More info on Stuart's blog post. February 3rd, 2010.
- 'Using SWORD and SWAP to Implement the MIT OA Mandate', DSpace news feature by Carol Minton Morris, January 26th 2010.
- Adrian Stevenson, 'Making Repository Deposit Easier with SWORD'. Presentation and demonstration at the 'DSpace User Group Meeting', 15th October 2009, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
- Five minute show-and-tell about SWORD at the 'JISC Deposit Tool Show and Tell' event by Adrian Stevenson, 12th October 2009, University of London, UK
- Adrian Stevenson, 'SWORD: The Story So Far'. Seminar at UKOLN by Adrian Stevenson on 24th September 2007, University of Bath, UK.
- Adrian Stevenson, 'SWORD: An Overview'. Presentation and demonstration at the EThOSnet project's 'Repositories and Web Services Workshop', 2nd June 2009, British Library, London, UK.
- Adrian Stevenson and Julie Allinson, 'SWORD Futures'. Workshop at Open Repositories 2009, 21st May 2009, Atlanta GA, USA.
- Adrian Stevenson and Julie Allinson, 'The Cutting Edge of SWORD'. Presentation and demonstration at Open Repositories 2009, 18th May 2009, Atlanta GA, USA.
- 'SWORD Wins Innovation Award at JISC Event', JISC Repositories and Preservation conference at Aston Business School, UK, 7th May 2009
- Julie Allinson, 'SWORD'. Presentation at the British Library, Boston Spa, 25th March 2009.
- Sarah Currier, 'SWORD - Easy Depositing'. Presentation at 'Open Educational Repositories: Share, Improve, Reuse', 25th March 2009, Edinburgh, Scotland.
- Post about Adrian Stevenson's demo at JISC Conference 2009 on Owen Stephens 'Overdue Ideas' blog.
- Post on Adrian Stevenson's SWORD demo at JISC Conference 2009 on JISC Events blog.
- Adrian Stevenson, 'Lightweight Deposit using SWORD'. Presentation and demonstration at the JISC Conference 2009, 24th March 2009, Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Scotland.
- Sarah Currier, SWORD: Cutting Through the Red Tape to Populate Learning Materials Repositories. JISC e-Learning Forum, 2 Feb 2009.
- 'Interoperability Fundamentals: An Overview of SWORD2'. Presentation by Adrian Stevenson for the SUETr Interoperability Workshop, 9th December 2008, London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom.
- IMS Global Learning Consortium Summit on Interoperability Now and Next, held in Birmingham, UK on 18 September 2008. Sarah Currier presented "SWORD: A Case Study in Application Profiling Atom Publishing Protocol for Repository Deposit", with live demo of SWORD desktop deposit to intraLibrary, and, with Scott Wilson (JISC-CETIS) gave a live demo of SWORD integration with FeedForward tool: "SWORD, Feedforward and IntraLibrary, an Integrated Demonstration". Slides for initial presentation here. Blogged by Scott here and Sheila MacNeill of JISC-CETIS here.
- Overview and live demo of SWORD deposit included in Repository Fringe: "An Audience With... Sarah Currier (Intrallect Ltd): Web services and open access to learning and research materials - some case studies from education using intraLibrary Connect, including a preview of intraLibrary 3.0." Slides here. Google video stream of presentation here.
- SWORD. Presentation at Third International Conference on Open Repositories 2008, 1-4 April 2008, Southampton, United Kingdom. Paper and presentation.
- JISC-CETIS Metadata & Digital Repositories SIG Meeting, Birkbeck College, London, 12 February 2008. Sarah Currier presented "Easy Desktop Deposit for intraLibrary: An Implementation of SWORD", with live demo of SWORD desktop deposit to intraLibrary, and Scott Wilson (JISC-CETIS) gave a (sort of) live demo of SWORD integration with FeedForward tool, depositing into intraLibrary: "FeedForward Project". Slides and MP3s here
- SWORD - where we are now and how we got here. Presentation at the JISC CRIG Unconference, Birkbeck College, 6th December 2007.
- Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit (SWORD). Presentation at the JISC CETIS EC and MDR SIG meeting, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, 29th June 2007. Also available on Slideshare
- Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit (SWORD). Presentation at the Defining Image Access project meeting, Wolfson College, Oxford University, Oxford, 22nd June 2007.
- Rachel Heery, Julie Allinson, Jim Downing, Christopher Gutteridge and Martin Morrey, Repository Deposit Service Description. Presented by Julie Allinson at Open Repositories 2007, 23-26 January 2007, San Antonio, Texas.
- Pete Johnston, eFoundations: http://efoundations.typepad.com/efoundations/2007/07/putting-them-wi.html and http://efoundations.typepad.com/efoundations/2007/10/sword-unsheathe.html
- David Davies' Weblog: http://david.davies.name/weblog/2007/06/30/how-project-sword-restored-my-faith-in-educational-technology/
- Ed Summers: http://www.inkdroid.org/journal
- Pete Sefton: http://ptsefton.com/blog/2007/06/04/migration-toolkit and http://ptsefton.com/blog/2007/08/09/09-23-19.208941
- DigitalKoans: http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/index.php?s=sword
- http://www.trainingpressreleases.com/newsstory.asp?NewsID=3345
- http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=42597
- Caveat Lector: http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/archives/2008/03/05/barn-door-horse/
- Stuart Lewis on SWORD: http://blog.stuartlewis.com/tag/sword/
- Savas Parastatidis releases his Microsoft Word SWORD plugin: http://savas.parastatidis.name/2008/10/07/86c8cc56-d3e4-49d9-985f-2cfd011f6d54.aspx
