EasyDeposit – DOI integration with the CrossRef API

A few weeks ago I wrote about the EasyDeposit system we’ve created at The University of Auckland Library. In a nutshell, it allows you to easily create custom web-based SWORD deposit interfaces to enable the deposit of items into your repository. We’ve used it locally to create custom deposit interfaces for PhD theses, Masters theses, [...]

EasyDeposit – SWORD deposit tool creator

The development of the SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit) protocol has enabled repositories to start accepting deposits from remote systems and interfaces. If you’re unsure of the basics of SWORD, read one of the following:

SWORD: Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit Ariadne, 2008
If SWORD is the answer, what is the question? Program, 2009

However, to date [...]

If SWORD is the answer, what is the question?

I’ve just had a new collaborative paper published: ‘If SWORD is the answer, what is the question?’ (DOI: 10.1108/00330330910998057). It covers the most recent iteration of the SWORD repository deposit standard, looks briefly at some issues around the present lack of adoption of SWORD, and most usefully presents seven use cases of SWORD written by [...]

SWORD PHP Library version 0.9 released + moved to github

I have just released version 0.9 of the SWORD PHP library. It has a few fixes and changes, the most noteworthy being:

Changed swordappservicedocument to build the servcedocument from the xml response rather than having the swordappclient do the work. This allows the service document to be parsed at a later time.
Changed the swordappclient deposit method [...]

Email your repository

What modern information handling system do we probably interact with most each day? For the majority of us, it is probably our email. We send and recive dozens of emails each day. So how about enabling repository deposit via email?
It has certainly been talked about from time to time, and a plugin to the Thunderbird [...]

Enable your repository to feed the world

I’ve been thinking and talking about RSS feeds (or Atom feeds if you’d prefer) from repositories recently with Les Carr to see what could be done with them when aggregated with feeds from all of the open access repositories across the globe. Les wrote a script to aggregate the feeds, so I provided him with [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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