Archive for November, 2008

SWORD PHP library

As part of the JISC funded SWORD2 project, I have now written a PHP library for SWORD which is now available for download from:
http://php.swordapp.org/
There are many web applications that could deposit into repositories using SWORD, and many of these are written in PHP. Examples might include open source Content Management Systems, Blogs or Wikis. By [...]

Posted on November 30, 2008 at 8:11 am by Stuart · Permalink · 2 Comments
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Launched today: the Facebook repository deposit application

Within the repositories community we often talk about how to encourage faculty to self-archive their works. We also talk about the problems with repositories, and how repositories are not yet part of the daily toolkit of faculty. In an attempt to see whether bringing these two problems together by allowing faculty to deposit from within [...]

Posted on November 17, 2008 at 1:28 pm by Stuart · Permalink · Comments Closed
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New SWORD test repository available to all

Have you ever wanted to try out SWORD, but don’t yet have a repository that supports it? As part of the JISC funded ‘SWORD 2′ project, we have now made available a test DSpace repository at the following URL:

http://dspace.swordapp.org/

If you’ve not used SWORD before, and want to give it a go, here’s what you’ll need [...]

Posted on November 16, 2008 at 3:53 pm by Stuart · Permalink · Comments Closed
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A benefit of the SWORD / AtomPub relationship

Now that version 1.3 of SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit) has been published, it is time to get cracking with implementing it. One of my roles in the project is to maintain the Java and the PHP SWORD libraries.
One of the nice new features in version 1.3 are error documents. These allow errors to [...]

Posted on November 12, 2008 at 3:24 pm by Stuart · Permalink · Leave a comment
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More on Microsoft and SWORD

Pablo Fernicola (Microsoft) has just written a blog entry about The Microsoft eJournal Service and how this “is a good example of a growing trend towards delivering functionality through the Software as a Service approach“.
Of most interest to me is their continued support for SWORD. As well as the eJournal Service supporting SWORD, they have built SWORD support [...]

Posted on November 3, 2008 at 1:19 pm by Stuart · Permalink · Leave a comment
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