Does anyone use SWORD for ingests? Are you using version 1 or 2?

[Carolyn Sullivan]

Hello folks,

Out of curiosity, is anyone using SWORD to ingest OA resources by your community members into your repository?  If so...

(1) What resources are you ingesting?

(2) Are you using version 1 or 2 of SWORD?

(3) Version 1 of SWORD is 'fire-and-forget' (no update options permitted), whereas apparently version 2 allows you to create an artifact file by file before deposit... what does version 2 look like in a DSpace repository?

Thanks,

Carolyn.

[Young, Philip]

We use both versions of SWORD for publisher deposit of CC-licensed articles (MDPI, ACM, BioMed Central) and for faculty deposit of articles from Symplectic Elements (version 2).  We use both versions the same way.  

Virginia implemented new accessibility rules in April which we must follow as a public university, and unfortunately none of these publishers is producing accessible PDFs at the moment, so I am rejecting them from our approval queue.

Philip

Philip Young

Institutional Repository Manager, VTechWorks

Email: pyo...@vt.edu | Tel: 540-231-8845 | Office: Newman Library 4013
Mastodon: @openatvt | Blog: Open@VT | Guides: Open Access  OA Policy  ORCiD  Perma.cc

Virginia Tech
University Libraries (0434)
560 Drillfield Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
https://lib.vt.edu/

---

From: dspace-c...@googlegroups.com <dspace-c...@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Carolyn Sullivan <lrelli...@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2026 4:03 PM
To: DSpace Community <dspace-c...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [dspace-community] Does anyone use SWORD for ingests? Are you using version 1 or 2?

 

--
All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code of Conduct: https://lyrasis.org/code-of-conduct/
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Community" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dspace-communi...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-community/17295e6f-b90c-4abf-8d49-d2f9a3ff367fn%40googlegroups.com.