Stephen Downes

SWORD has received a funding extension from JISC. "The next version of SWORD will push the standard towards supporting a full deposit lifecycle for all types of scholarly systems by specifying and implementing update, retrieve and delete extensions to the specification. This will enable these systems to be integrated into a broader range of other systems within the scholarly infrastructure." SWORD also has a new website, http://swordapp.org/, and facilitators are looking for comments on a new SWORD White paper (there's a lot of comments already).