Scholarly Works Application Profile (SWAP)
JISC is establishing a
UK search service for content held in
UK repositories. For this service to succeed, metadata shared by repositories describing scholarly works needs to be richer, more uniformly structured and functional than the simple DC exposed by repositories at present. A piece of work to define a DC application profile for describing scholarly works was commissioned by JISC. The work is referred to both as the Scholarly Works Application Profile (SWAP) and the Eprints Application Profile. For an overview of the application profile, see Allinson, Julie, Johnston, Pete and Powell, Andy. 'A
Dublin Core Application Profile for scholarly works'.
Ariadne,
vol. 50, January 2007.
Aims and objectives
To develop a Dublin Core application profile for eprints (scholarly works or research texts) along with any implementation / cataloguing rules that might be necessary to support functionality offered by aggregator and search services such as the Intute repository search project and a plan for community acceptance and take-up, bearing in mind current practice.
Project methodology
The work was coordinated by Julie Allinson and Andy Powell, with input from a working group of experts. Andy Powell led on the development of the application model and application profile. Pete Johnston (Eduserv Foundation) developed an XML format and schema.
Anticipated outputs and outcomes
- Functional requirements specification
- Entity-relationship model
- Application profile, including usage guidelines and dumb
- XML format and schema
- Community acceptance plan
Technology / Standards used (if applicable)
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