SWORD Stories - Easy Deposit Cutting Through Repositories’ Red Tape Sarah Currier Consultancy | E-Learning * Resource Sharing * Web 2.0 * Metadata * Repositories

Presentation Why SWORD? Why SWORD? What is SWORD? What is SWORD? What does SWORD include? What does SWORD include? SWORD conformance and APP SWORD conformance and APP SWORD resources SWORD resources SWORD story demos: SWORD story demos: – SWORD Story 1: Drag-n-Drop – SWORD Story 2: Bulk Deposit – SWORD Story 3: Content Authoring – SWORD Story 4: Deposit Feeds as Learning Resources – SWORD Story 5: Take it to the Users Open Educational Repositories: Share, Improve, Reuse | Edinburgh, Mar 09

Why SWORD? An educational technology vision un-realised: Easy self-deposit by resource authors Easy sharing of resources across collections, organisations, communitiesBarriers: Prohibitive rights policies Complicated deposit workflows Interoperability standards for everything but deposit Open Educational Repositories: Share, Improve, Reuse | Edinburgh, Mar 09

Why SWORD? 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 work Open Educational Repositories: Share, Improve, Reuse | Edinburgh, Mar 09

Why SWORD? 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 work Open Educational Repositories: Share, Improve, Reuse | Edinburgh, Mar 09

What is SWORD? 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 Open Educational Repositories: Share, Improve, Reuse | Edinburgh, Mar 09

What does SWORD include? 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. Open Educational Repositories: Share, Improve, Reuse | Edinburgh, Mar 09

SWORD conformance and APP SWORD includes: a subset of elements from the Atom Publishing Protocol – focusing on POST mandatory and optional elements NB: repositories may also support Atom Publishing Protocol elements not included in SWORD, e.g. PUT (update), DELETE – none do yet, to my knowledge Open Educational Repositories: Share, Improve, Reuse | Edinburgh, Mar 09

SWORD resources: clients SWORD project clients SWORD open source reference clients: – Command line – GUI (desktop) – Web-based SWORD demonstrator Facebook client Open Educational Repositories: Share, Improve, Reuse | Edinburgh, Mar 09

SWORD resources: reference Reference implementations of repositories intraLibrary DSpace Eprints Fedora Test packages for deposit also available Open Educational Repositories: Share, Improve, Reuse | Edinburgh, Mar 09

SWORD stories SWORD Stories for e-Learning: Use Cases 1.Drag-and-drop desktop tools 2.Bulk deposit: sharing metadata 3.Deposit from content authoring tools 4.Drag-and-drop newsfeeds into repository 5.Taking SWORD to the people: – SWORD Facebook App – OfficeSWORD: deposit straight from Microsoft Office – SWORD widget Open Educational Repositories: Share, Improve, Reuse | Edinburgh, Mar 09

SWORD Story 1: Drag-n-Drop #1 intraLibrary 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 Open Educational Repositories: Share, Improve, Reuse | Edinburgh, Mar 09

SWORD Story 1: Drag-n-Drop #2 Keele 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. Open Educational Repositories: Share, Improve, Reuse | Edinburgh, Mar 09

SWORD Story 2: Bulk Deposit Two large-scale public-sector educational resource providers wanted to share resources: NHS Education for Scotland Shared Learning Portal IRISS Learning Exchange Interoperability specifications: Extract metadata nightly from IRISS LX using either: – OAI-PMH, or – SRU Deposit it into NHS Shared Learning via: – SWORD Open Educational Repositories: Share, Improve, Reuse | Edinburgh, Mar 09

SWORD Story 2: Bulk Deposit Let’s have a look: (search for “ethical” in both) IRISS Learning Exchange NHS Education for Scotland Shared Learning Portal Open Educational Repositories: Share, Improve, Reuse | Edinburgh, Mar 09

SWORD Story 3: Content Authoring 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 Open Educational Repositories: Share, Improve, Reuse | Edinburgh, Mar 09

SWORD Story 3: Content Authoring Let’s Have a Look: NHS Scotland Shared Learning Portal 1.Find resource from repository (using SRU) 2.Publish SCORM course to repository (using SWORD) Open Educational Repositories: Share, Improve, Reuse | Edinburgh, Mar 09

SWORD Story 4: Deposit Feeds 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... Open Educational Repositories: Share, Improve, Reuse | Edinburgh, Mar 09

SWORD Story 5: Take it to the Users 5a: Facebook SWORD Client App Let’s have a look... Open Educational Repositories: Share, Improve, Reuse | Edinburgh, Mar 09

SWORD Story 5: Take it to the Users 5b: 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)” Open Educational Repositories: Share, Improve, Reuse | Edinburgh, Mar 09

SWORD Story 5: Take it to the Users 5c: SWORD Deposit Widget Let’s have a look at it in Netvibes (iFrame) Open Educational Repositories: Share, Improve, Reuse | Edinburgh, Mar 09

Contacts SWORD Website: Intrallect (for intraLibrary SWORD support and tools, and NHS/Compendle projects): Keele University (for Keele SWORD desktop deposit), contact Boyd or Jonathan: Sarah Currier Consultancy: Other relevant references, resources and links: NB: This SWORD article was the most popular yet on e-Learning Focus: Downloads Feb 2009= 1045; March 2009 (so far)= 288 Slides ©2009 Sarah Currier; available for reuse under Open Educational Repositories: Share, Improve, Reuse | Edinburgh, Mar 09