Module 1 of 'The SWORD Course'. For further information about SWORD, see http://swordapp.org/

1. The SWORD Course Module1 An Introductionto SWORD

2. Module objectives By the end of this module you will: Understand the purpose of SWORD Know the history of SWORD Know about the SWORD project Have seen a list of useful resources

3. What is SWORD? SWORD is a: Simple Web service Offering Repository Deposit During the development of SWORD it was decided to keep the protocol as simple and lightweight as possible.

4. What is SWORD? SWORD is a: Simple Web service Offering Repository Deposit A software interface that is accessible using http

5. What is SWORD? SWORD is a: Simple Web service Offering Repository Deposit

6. What is SWORD? SWORD is a: Simple Web service Offering Repository Deposit Agnostic: DSpace EPrints Fedora Intralibrary Zentity ???

7. What is SWORD? SWORD is a: Simple Web service Offering Repository Deposit Putting things INTO a repository

8. What is the purpose of SWORD? The purpose of SWORD is to: Provide an interoperableinterface that allows deposits to be easily made into repositories.

9. What is the history of SWORD? Discussions about the lack of a standard mechanism for deposit JISC CETIS Conference led by Lorna Campbell and Phil Barker Andy Powell’s “A service-oriented view of the JISC Information Environment” The “add” service identified by the eFramework Presentations about the new Open Archives Initiative-Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) Project

10. What is the history of SWORD? Late 2005 UKOLN’s Repository Research Team identified the need for a standardised deposit interface Early / Mid 2006 Deposit API working group formed Two meetings (March and July)

11. What is the history of SWORD? 2007 JISC funded SWORD project March to October Consortium project UKOLN (lead) Aberystwyth University The University of Southampton Intrallect

12. The SWORD project Lightweight project with controlled scope

13. The SWORD project Out of scope Packaging Metadata Authentication Authorization

14. The SWORD project Final outputs A specification Repository implementations DSpace EPrints Fedora Intralibrary Example clients Desktop client Web client

15. Want to learn more? SWORD: Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue54/allinson-et-al/ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/507

16. Credits This course has been produced by: Stuart Lewis The SWORD project http://swordapp.org/ Funded by JISC http://www.jisc.ac.uk/ Licence Creative commons

17. Photo Credits Lecture hall: http://www.flickr.com/photos/iamthebestartist/2008790/