The Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit (SWORD) Project 
, led by UKOLN, was named most innovative project at the recent JISC Repositories and Preservation conference at Aston Business School, as voted for by delegates from across the whole Programme. SWORD, whose partners include developers of the DSpace, EPrints, Fedora and IntraLibrary repository software platforms, plus the University of York and CASIS at the University of Wales, has created a mechanism for repositories to deposit and receive deposits via a standard protocol, thus making it possible for different repositories and other applications to move content around more easily. SWORD has received much interest, and a growing community of active developers is building, including Microsoft whose SWORD plug-in can support deposits direct to a repository from within Microsoft Word. FeedForward, a close second for the award, is also SWORD-compliant. Work on SWORD continues within the UKOLN suite of activities.
Archive for May 11th, 2009
Vacancy for Systems Developer
Monday, May 11th, 2009UKOLN is currentlyadvertising for a Systems Developer to work on the Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry (IEMSR) Project, part of the Shared Infrastructure Services strand of the JISC Information Environment Programme. Further details can be found on the UKOLN Web site. The closing date for applications is 22 May 2009.