[Open-access] [open-science] OKF at Open Repositories 2014

[Mike Taylor]

SWORD is a technically superior solution, because it's a single
protocol that can be implemented by multiple clients and multiple
servers in an interoperable way. A client developed to use any given
repo's own API will be be re-usable elsewhere.

-- Mike.



On 5 December 2013 11:28, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
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> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Mark MacGillivray <mark at cottagelabs.com>
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>> Does this mean that CKAN groks SWORD? If so this is good news.
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>> Unfortunately no - repo systems like dpsace and eprints do, but not CKAN
>> yet. We have looked at it and it would not be hard, but it has not been done
>> yet, mainly because CKAN has never focussed on being an academic repo before
>> so has not needed to grok SWORD.
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> CKAN has its  own API so if there is a Java client I'll use that - I don't
> think SWORD gives a technical advantage - it might give a political one.
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> Peter Murray-Rust
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> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
> University of Cambridge
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