Stuart Lewis, University of Edinburgh's presentation on SWORD & ResourceSync. This was presented on Thursday 1st August 2013 at Repository Fringe 2013

1. Stuart Lewis
Library & University Collections
Information Services, University of Edinburgh
*
@swordapp / #swordapp
#resourcesync

2. *
*Technical introduction
*SWORDv2
*ResourceSync introduction
*Comparison
*Demo?
*Purpose: introduce ResourceSync, understand
the key functions of SWORD and ResourceSync,
and how they can work together

3. *
*It’s useful to know about CRUD!
*Create
*Read
*Update
*Delete

4. *
*Also useful to know about HTTP verbs
*GET – retrieve information
*POST – create new content
*PUT – update or create new named content
*DELETE – delete existing content
*…others (HEAD, TRACE, OPTIONS, CONNECT,
PATCH)

5. *
*Also useful to know about HTTP response codes
*404 Not Found
*200 OK
*201 CREATED
*202 ACCEPTED
*200s = good, 300s = further actin required, 400s =
client error, 500 = server errors

6. *
* SWORD
*Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit
*Create objects in repositories
*Interoperability
*A protocol, not a piece of software!

7. *
*SWORDv1
*Create
*Read
*SWORDv2
*Create
*Read
*Update
*Delete

8. *
*Synchronising web resources
*Generic web problem
*Applicable to repositories
*Can be used as OAI-PMH replacement
*Find changes items:
*Files or metadata or both
*Lots of use cases:
*Archiving, mirroring, statistics gathering
*NISO / OAI initiative + Sloan funding
*JISC input + funding (implementations)
*Interoperability
*Not a piece of software!

9. *
*Layers of the protocol:
*Discovery
*Capability description
*Baseline sync
*Changelists
*Dumps

10. *
*Based on sitemaps:
<url>
<loc>http://example.com/res2_dublin-core_metadata.xml</loc>
<lastmod>2013-01-02T19:00:00Z</lastmod>
<rs:md change="updated"
type="application/xml"/>
<rs:ln rel="describes"
href="http://example.com/res2.pdf"
modified="2013-01-02T19:00:00Z"
hash="md5:1584abdf8ebdc9802ac0c6a7402c03b6"
length="8876"
type="application/pdf"/>
</url>

11. *
*SWORD
*Putting things INTO a repository
*POST / PUT / DELETE
*ResourceSync
*Discovering what is in a repository and what has changed
*GET

12. *
*Example:
*arXiv ReosurceSync feed:
*http://resync.library.cornell.edu/
*Mirror into local DSpace using SWORD:
*Spare time + brave enough for demo?

13. *
*SWORD: swordapp.org
*ResourceSync: www.niso.org/workrooms/resourcesync/
*OAI-PMH using ResourceSync: cottagelabs.com
*ResourceSync use cases: Ariadne Issue 70
*SWORD & ResourceSync: blog.stuartlewis.com