SWORD deposit tool for MS Word 2007 released
Repository developers who don’t read Savas’ blog miss out of a lot of information about repository development happening within Microsoft (and lots of other interesting posts too).
Yesterday was no exception, with a post about a humorous video posted by Microsoft, but of more relevance and interest is the blog post about the launch of an open source SWORD deposit tool for Microsoft Word 2007 (a.k.a. WordSWORD).
Talking about the release Savas says:
During discussions with the Fedora Commons and DSpace communities, it was suggested to us that an open source plugin for Word 2007 that talks with any repository service through SWORD would be a good idea.
If you’re interested in seeing the SWORD presentation given at the Microsoft Repository Interoperability Summit held earlier this year, it can be downloaded from http://hdl.handle.net/2160/552
I’ve yet to try the WordSWORD plugin as I’m currently at home using my Mac so need to get into work and dig out a copy of Visual Studio .Net 2008 but I’m looking forward to it. More news once it’s up and running…
(For those with an interest in SWORD, look out in the next few weeks for a few more announcements from various members of the SWORD community relating to an update of the standard, another SWORD library, and two other new SWORD clients.)
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on October 20, 2008 at 8:41 pm
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looking forward for more information about this. thanks for sharing. Eugene