SWORD-Fedora

Table of Contents

About This Service
Installation
Configuring the Service
Additional Information

About This Service

SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit) is a protocol for interoperable deposit between repository platforms. It was developed by a JISC project during 2007. See http://www.swordapp.org/ and http://sourceforge.net/projects/sword-app/ for more information.

Although the current release version of SWORD-Fedora is 1.1, this document describes the upcoming release which provides both SWORD Profile 1.3 and Fedora 3.x support.

Installation

To install the service:

• Until the next release of SWORD-Fedora, download a GNU tarball of the source from http://sword-app.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/sword-app/fedora/trunk.tar.gz?view=tar.
• Unpack trunk.tar.gz (e.g. tar xvzf trunk.tar.gz).
• Edit conf/properties.xml
  o Replace all instances of FEDORA_HOST:FEDORA_PORT with the host and port of your Fedora installation, e.g.: replace http://FEDORA_HOST:FEDORA_PORT/fedora/get/##PID## with http://localhost:8080/fedora/get/##PID##
  o Similarly, update the properties/fedora/host and properties/fedora/port elements.
  o Edit properties/general/repository_uri to point to the SWORD-Fedora endpoint, e.g. http://localhost:8080/sword (or any unique uri for your repository).
  o Edit properties/general/temp_dir with the full path to a temporary directory that SWORD-Fedora can use for processing uploads (e.g. /tmp).
• Edit build.xml
  o Change <property name="tomcat" location="/usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28"/> to point to the location of your Tomcat installation (e.g. /usr/local/fedora/tomcat).
• Build SWORD-Fedora
  o ant dist
  o This will build sword.war and copy it to the webapps directory of the Tomcat installation specified in build.xml.