Direct from MS Word to DSpace via SWORD
As a member of the SWORD project, it has been a great seeing Microsoft’s External Research group integrate SWORD into Word 2007, their Zentity repository, and their online journal hosting system. There is a good overview of this work in a presentation given by Pablo Fernicola at the Open Repositories 2009 conference entitled ‘Connecting Authors and Repositories [...]
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SWORD PHP Library version 0.7 released
I have just released version 0.7 of the SWORD PHP library. It can be downloaded from http://php.swordapp.org/ This latest version adds two new features: When performing a deposit, the client now sets the ‘Content-Disposition:filename’ header so that the SWORD server knows what to name the file. This is required by SWORD implementations (such as the [...]
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How does the Facebook SWORD client actually work?
I’ve been asked a few questions recently about how SWORD clients work, and in particular how the SWORD Facebook client works. The Facebook client is one of the most complete demonstration clients that there is, and as such ‘hides’ a lot of the work that goes on behind the scenes. This post will explain how [...]
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DSpace 1.5.2 – What’s in it for me?
You may have seen the recent announcement saying that DSpace 1.5.2 is now released. When it comes to upgrading software, especially something as large and possibly critical as repository software, there is always a decision to be made about whether to upgrade or not. As one of the DSpace committers, I’ve worked on some of [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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