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SWORD Stories - Easy DepositSWORD Stories - Easy Deposit
Cutting Through Repositories’ Red TapeCutting Through Repositories’ Red Tape
Sarah Currier Consultancy | E-Learning * Resource Sharing * Web 2.0 * Metadata * Repositories
PresentationPresentation• Why SWORD?Why SWORD?• What is SWORD?What is SWORD?• What does SWORD include?What does SWORD include?• SWORD conformance and APPSWORD conformance and APP• SWORD resourcesSWORD resources• SWORD story demos:SWORD story demos:
– SWORD Story 1: Drag-n-DropSWORD Story 1: Drag-n-Drop– SWORD Story 2: Bulk DepositSWORD Story 2: Bulk Deposit– SWORD Story 3: Content AuthoringSWORD Story 3: Content Authoring– SWORD Story 4: Deposit Feeds as Learning ResourcesSWORD Story 4: Deposit Feeds as Learning Resources– SWORD Story 5: Take it to the UsersSWORD Story 5: Take it to the Users
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Why SWORD?Why SWORD?
An educational technology vision un-realised:An educational technology vision un-realised:• Easy self-deposit by resource authors• Easy sharing of resources across collections, organisations,
communities
Barriers:Barriers:• Prohibitive rights policies• Complicated deposit workflows• Interoperability standards for everything but deposit
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Why SWORD?Why SWORD?
Solutions:Solutions:• Prohibitive rights policies
– Open licensing solutions (e.g. Creative Commons)– Open educational resources movement
• Complicated deposit workflows– Repositories supporting:
• minimal self-deposit workflow stage;• supported by admin workflow stages;• skirting repositories interfaces altogether:
– drag-n-drop– interfaces within tools teachers use already
• Interoperability standards for everything but deposit– JISC Deposit API Working Group (2006)– ... became the SWORD project (2007)– ... followed by SWORD2 (2008)– ... Now SWORD3 is on: UKOLN support for ongoing workOpen Educational Repositories: Share, Improve, Reuse | Edinburgh, 25-26 Mar 09 http://www.sarahcurrier.com/ 4
Why SWORD?Why SWORD?
Solutions:Solutions:• Prohibitive rights policies
– Open licensing solutions (e.g. Creative Commons)– Open educational resources movement
• Complicated deposit workflows– Repositories supporting:
• minimal self-deposit workflow stage;• supported by admin workflow stages;• skirting repositories interfaces altogether:
– drag-n-drop– interfaces within tools teachers use already
• Interoperability specs for everything but deposit– JISC Deposit API Working Group (2006)– ... became the SWORD project (2007)– ... followed by SWORD2 (2008)– ... Now SWORD3 is on: UKOLN support for ongoing workOpen Educational Repositories: Share, Improve, Reuse | Edinburgh, 25-26 Mar 09 http://www.sarahcurrier.com/ 5
What is SWORD?What is SWORD?
SWORD is:SWORD is:
• Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit• a profile of the Atom Publishing Protocol• a light-weight, open specification for remote deposit
of resources into repositories and similar systems
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What does SWORD include?What does SWORD include?
SWORD specification supports:SWORD specification supports:• Remotely querying a repository for information about
collections available for deposit.• Depositing resources into available collections, with or
without specifying user log-in details.• Mediated deposit, where a user (e.g. a librarian) deposits on
behalf of another user (e.g. a teacher); the resources are only deposited to collections the teacher has access to, and are recorded by the repository as belonging to that teacher.
• Developer support functions: No0p and Verbose.
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SWORD conformance and APPSWORD conformance and APP
SWORD includes:SWORD includes:
• a subset of elements from the Atom Publishing Protocol– focusing on POST
• mandatory and optional elementsNB: repositories may also support Atom Publishing
Protocol elements not included in SWORD, e.g. PUT (update), DELETE– none do yet, to my knowledge
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SWORD resources: clientsSWORD resources: clients
SWORD project clientsSWORD project clients
• SWORD open source reference clients:– Command line– GUI (desktop)– Web-based
• SWORD demonstrator Facebook client
http://www.swordapp.org/sword/demonstrators
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SWORD resources: referenceSWORD resources: reference
Reference implementations of repositoriesReference implementations of repositories
• intraLibrary• DSpace• Eprints• Fedora• Test packages for deposit also available
http://www.swordapp.org/sword/demonstrators
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SWORD storiesSWORD stories
SWORD Stories for e-Learning: Use CasesSWORD Stories for e-Learning: Use Cases1. Drag-and-drop desktop tools2. Bulk deposit: sharing metadata3. Deposit from content authoring tools4. Drag-and-drop newsfeeds into repository5. Taking SWORD to the people:– SWORD Facebook App– OfficeSWORD: deposit straight from Microsoft Office– SWORD widget
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SWORD Story 1: Drag-n-Drop #1SWORD Story 1: Drag-n-Drop #1
intraLibrary Drag-n-Drop Desktop ToolintraLibrary Drag-n-Drop Desktop Tool• Simple batch file using SWORD client• Supports multiple file / IMS CP deposit• Supports deposit of metadata-only XML LOM files• Works with intraLibrary workflows/application
profiles/metadata templates• Requires set-up with correct
username/password/collection details
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SWORD Story 1: Drag-n-Drop #2SWORD Story 1: Drag-n-Drop #2
Keele University Desktop ToolKeele University Desktop Tool• Took it forward for real users:– user-friendly dialog– security enhancements
Michael Debenham will be demo’ing in next presentation, after the break.
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SWORD Story 2: Bulk DepositSWORD Story 2: Bulk Deposit
Two large-scale public-sector educational resource Two large-scale public-sector educational resource providers wanted to share resources:providers wanted to share resources:
• NHS Education for Scotland Shared Learning Portal• IRISS Learning Exchange
Interoperability specifications:Interoperability specifications:• Extract metadata nightly from IRISS LX using either:– OAI-PMH, or– SRU
• Deposit it into NHS Shared Learning via:– SWORD
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SWORD Story 2: Bulk DepositSWORD Story 2: Bulk Deposit
Let’s have a look:Let’s have a look: (search for “ethical” in both)
• IRISS Learning Exchangehttp://www.iriss.ac.uk/openlx/
• NHS Education for Scotland Shared Learning Portalhttp://www.sharedlearning.scot.nhs.uk/
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SWORD Story 3: Content AuthoringSWORD Story 3: Content Authoring
Compendle Course Authoring Tool:Compendle Course Authoring Tool:• Easy creation of SCORM-compliant courses– Publish as zip file SCORM package– Publish as HTML– Publish to CD-ROM– Publish to repository (using SWORD)
• Round trip: can download resources from repository for inclusion in SCORM course– Using SRU behind search facility
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SWORD Story 3: Content AuthoringSWORD Story 3: Content Authoring
Let’s Have a Look:Let’s Have a Look:
• NHS Scotland Shared Learning Portal
http://www.sharedlearning.scot.nhs.uk/ 1. Find resource from repository (using SRU)2. Publish SCORM course to repository (using SWORD)
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SWORD Story 4: Deposit FeedsSWORD Story 4: Deposit Feeds
JISC-funded FeedForward tool:JISC-funded FeedForward tool:• Desk-top tool• Gather all your feeds’ results• Categorise your feeds• Decide which feed categories you want to see more or less of,
dynamically• Collect individual feed results• Drag-and-drop collection as IMS Content Package, with:
Author, Title, Description, Keywords... in IEEE LOM Metadata in Package... into repository (using SWORD)
Let’s have a look ...http://getfeedforward.org/
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SWORD Story 5: Take it to the UsersSWORD Story 5: Take it to the Users
5a: Facebook SWORD Client App5a: Facebook SWORD Client App
http://fb.swordapp.org/Let’s have a look ...
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SWORD Story 5: Take it to the UsersSWORD Story 5: Take it to the Users
5b: OfficeSWORD5b: OfficeSWORD
http://www.codeplex.com/OfficeSWORD
““A sample plug-in for uploading Office documents to a repository directly from within the Office applications using the SWORD protocol.”
““License: Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)”
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SWORD Story 5: Take it to the UsersSWORD Story 5: Take it to the Users
5c: SWORD Deposit Widget5c: SWORD Deposit Widgethttp://www.rwidgets.co.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=wiki:sword
Let’s have a look at it in Netvibes (iFrame)
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ContactsContactsSWORD Website: http://www.swordapp.org/Intrallect (for intraLibrary SWORD support and tools, and
NHS/Compendle projects): [email protected] University (for Keele SWORD desktop deposit), contact
Boyd or Jonathan:[email protected], [email protected] Sarah Currier Consultancy: [email protected] relevant references, resources and links:
http://www.elearning.ac.uk/features/sword NB: This SWORD article was the most popular yet on e-Learning
Focus: Downloads Feb 2009= 1045; March 2009 (so far)= 288Slides ©2009 Sarah Currier; available for reuse under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/scotland/
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