SWORD 3 Kick-off Meeting

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SWORD 3 Kick-off Meeting

23rd November 2009

JISC HQ, Brettenham House, London

Adrian StevensonSWORD Project Manager

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SWORD Phase 3• What do we do?

– Ideas from today– From Deposit Show n’Tell– From UKOLN Proposal– From SWORD Futures Workshop– Carried over from SWORD phases 1 and 2

• How?• Discussion doc:

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/SWORD3_discussion_paper

• http://tinyurl.com/y9vwgd6

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From DepST: SWORDCamp

• Idea from Deposit show-and-tell in London• A week of hands on development

– agree package standard in advance• Based on OAI-ORE

– update demonstrators– update their clients/code

• Timed to coincide with Open Repositories 2010

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More from Show and Tell

• More SWORD Extensions

• Making current test implementations ‘truly’ interoperable

• Other projects provide packaging solution? PRONOM?

• Make Update/Delete explicit in SWORDAPP?

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From Proposal: Development work • Maintenance and development of SWORD

application profile• Update SWORD demonstrator repositories

and clients• Synergies with project activity in the area• Tie in with repository handshake strand of

international repositories workshop

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From Proposal: Community Support & Advocacy

• Reflective piece on why SWORD has been a success

• Devise a support model for SWORD• Increase uptake by marketing and

promotion• Additional use and implementation case

studies

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From Proposal: Prototyping Registries• Prototype SWORD package types

registry.

• Prototype ‘SWORD enabled’ repositories registry?

• Explore adding ‘SWORD enabled’ info to existing registries e.g. OpenDOAR

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From Proposal: Standardising SWORD • Investigate standardising SWORD

profile with e.g. NISO, CEN, and others. Suggestions?

• Evaluate cost/benefit and make recommendations.

• Consider alternatives to formal standardisation

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From SWORD Futures Workshop• X-Headers

– IETF clear - they shouldn't be used

• Documentation – Primer, technical discovery doc, registry of

implementations

• Development ideas – SWORD in Zotero, Apple, Open Office?

• Extending SWORD – funder information

• Package Formats – Maintain current SWORD TYPES at UKOLN

– .. but registries for formats/schemas are relevant to many

• SWORD Standardisation

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From Phase 1 and 2• Advocacy/Uptake

– With NPG

• Technical Developments– Improved integration with more complex workflows– OAI-ORE– Extending to full APP – CRUD– OpenAuth/OpenID as replacement for mediated

deposit

• Standardisation

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Other stuff

• Sort SWORD and Federated Authorisation – re. JORUM and other JISC services

• SWORD for Publishers - DFF

• SWORD acronym– Simple Web Service Offering Resource

Deposit

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Anything Else?

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More Info and Contact• SWORD Website:• http://www.swordapp.org• http://twitter.com/swordapp• General queries:

– Adrian Stevensona.stevenson@ukoln.ac.uk

• Technical queries:– Sword sourceforge list

sword-app-tech@lists.sourceforge.net