For those of you
attending OR12, I would love to have you join our "working"
workshop on using SWORD to deposit to both an OER repository
and an institutional repository at the same time. Register
for the workshop. The workshop is free for attendees and it
will be Monday, July 9th. Since we will be working to extend an
existing SWORD client that deposits to Connexions (
cnx.oerpub.org)
so that it will also optionally deposit to an insitutional dspace
repo (and eprints if we have folks to drive that effort).
OERPub
is a new API for publishing OER (Open Education Resources)
that was adapted lightly from SWORD V2. The purpose for the
OERPub API is to enable an ecosystem of tools and services
that support transforming, remixing, adapting, and translating
OER.
Features
were added to SWORD to specialize it for OER and it has been
implemented in Connexions (an open repository). We have also
created a client that transforms content in general purposes
formats like Word, Open Office, HTML, and Google Docs into
semantic formats and then uses the API to publish the
resulting content. When institutional authors submit scholarly
works such as textbooks, conference proceedings, or journal
articles to Connexions, they often need to archive the
materials within their institutional arrchives (DSpace Fedora,
Eprints).
In
this workshop we will extend the OERPub client to optionally
deposit to DSpace institutional archives using SWORD V2 at the
same time as the materials are being published in Connexions.
The first part of the workshop will be spent on design
discussion, and then we will extend the client to deposit to
both Connexions and DSpace. If participants are interested in
EPrints or Fedora, we will pursue prototype implementations
for those also. Attendees should be familiar with SWORD for
publishing and an institutional repository. Since we will be
actively extending existing software, software development
skills or user experience skills will be priority for
attendees.
Presenters:
Kathi Fletcher (Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow), Marvin Reimer
(TU Braunschweig), Ying Jin (Rice University – Center for
Digital Scholarship)
