SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit) is a lightweight protocol for depositing and updating content from one
location to another. The SWORD vision is ‘
lowering the barriers to deposit‘,
principally for depositing content into repositories,
but potentially for depositing into any system which wants to receive
content from remote sources.
The
SWORDV3 project has been funded by
Jisc with two key aims for the next generation of the SWORD Protocol:
- To bring SWORD up-to-date with the developments in the repository
sphere in the last 5 years, with alignment to new protocols and new
use-cases such as data publishing and complex objects.
- To establish community and governance mechanisms for the standard
and supporting code libraries to ensure ongoing maintenance and
evolution. This will include a technical validation process to allow
third party libraries to be hosted under the SWORD brand.
In September, the project was formally announced at
PASIG 2017 in Oxford and the
RDA 10th Plenary in Montreal.
We are looking for expressions of interest in becoming involved as
stakeholders in the project: to make suggestions, review activities and
meet as required over the coming months. In particular, we are
interested in making contact with people who may wish to develop SWORD
V3 libraries for their preferred platforms or languages since we aim to
provide some support for such activities during the project. Please
contact one of the project team if you are interested in participating,
and indicate if you are interested in the technical or community
aspects of the project (or both!).
The key members of the project team are:
