SWORD desktop app

An idea from the CETIS UKOLN OER Hack Days

Thinking about repository workflows for staff – put a deposit client where their resources live, on their desktop…

There is an existing tool built using SWORD desktop client + windows batch file + VBScript that can be configured with a SWORD DEPOSIT_TARGET to enable drag and drop of a file (or multiple files) onto the VBS icon for direct upload to a repository.

The current tool is of limited use as it just pushes a file into the repository. In fact, it will quite happily push a Content Package – a Zip comprising a file and some metadata as XML – either an IMSMANIFEST (which I would need for intraLibrary) or METS for DSpace (i.e. Jorum.)

Can a desktop app be developed to integrate a way of capturing the metadata associated with a resource, converting it into an IMSMANIFEST and/or METS, zipping the whole lot up and pushing it to a repository (or multiple repositories) via SWORD?

See blog-post: http://repositorynews.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/repository-deposit-from-the-desktop/

Screen-capture: http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/inn/repository/video/SWORD_drop_from_desktop/

who?
Nick Sheppard