SWORD is a lightweight protocol for depositing content from one location to another. It stands for Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit and is a profile of the Atom Publishing Protocol (known as APP or ATOMPUB).

SWORD has been funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to develop the SWORD profile and a number of demonstration implementations.

The SWORD vision is ‘lowering the barriers to deposit‘, principally for depositing content (any content!) into repositories, but potentially for depositing into any system which wants to receive content from remote sources.

To read more about SWORD, please see the following:

SWORD: Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit Ariadne, 2008 (also deposited in CADAIR)
SWORD: Cutting Through the Red Tape to Populate Learning Materials Repositories JISC e-Learning Forum, Feb 2009

What is it?

Geb is a browser automation solution.

It brings together the power of WebDriver, the elegance of jQuery content selection, the robustness of Page Object modelling and the expressiveness of the Groovy language.

It can be used for scripting, scraping and general automation — or equally as a functional/web/acceptance testing solution via integration with testing frameworks such as Spock, JUnit & TestNG.

The Book of Geb contains all the information you need to get started with Geb.

Bradford's law is a pattern first described by Samuel C. Bradford in 1934 that estimates the exponentially diminishing returns of extending a search for references in science journals. One formulation is that if journals in a field are sorted by number of articles into three groups, each with about one-third of all articles, then the number of journals in each group will be proportional to 1:n:n².[1] There are a number of related formulations of the principle.

The Eigenfactor Project is a non-commercial academic research project sponsored by the Bergstrom lab in the Department of Biology at the University of Washington. We aim to use recent advances in network analysis and information theory to develop novel methods for evaluating the influence of scholarly periodicals, generating paper recommendations, and mapping the structure of academic research.

The Eigenfactor score, developed by Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom at the University of Washington, is a rating of the total importance of a scientific journal. Journals are rated according to the number of incoming citations, with citations from highly ranked journals weighted to make a larger contribution to the eigenfactor than those from poorly ranked journals.[1] As a measure of importance, the Eigenfactor score scales with the total impact of a journal. All else equal, journals generating higher impact to the field have larger Eigenfactor scores.

The h-index is an index that attempts to measure both the productivity and impact of the published work of a scientist or scholar. The index is based on the set of the scientist's most cited papers and the number of citations that they have received in other publications.

The impact factor, often abbreviated IF, is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to recent articles published in science and social science journals. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals with higher impact factors deemed to be more important than those with lower ones. The impact factor was devised by Eugene Garfield, the founder of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), now part of Thomson Reuters. Impact factors are calculated yearly for those journals that are indexed in Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports.

Bio-Formats is a standalone Java library for reading and writing life sciences image file formats. It is capable of parsing both pixels and metadata for a large number of formats, as well as writing to several formats. See the table below for a complete list (click the headers to sort, and format names to see all information). For more information on the format ratings, see the Supported Formats page.

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Nokogiri (鋸) is an HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parser. Among Nokogiri’s many features is the ability to search documents via XPath or CSS3 selectors.

XML is like violence - if it doesn’t solve your problems, you are not using enough of it.

What’s Wrong with Requirements Specification? An Analysis of the Fundamental Failings of Conventional Thinking about Software Requirements, and Some Suggestions for Getting it Right

Elda -- a java implementation of the Linked Data API. Version 1.2.12 was released on 24th April 2012.

The Linked Data API provides a configurable way to access RDF data using simple RESTful URLs that are translated into queries to a SPARQL endpoint. The API developer (probably you) writes an API spec (in RDF) which specifies how to translate URLs into queries.

Elda is the Epimorphics implementation of the LDA. It comes with some pre-built examples which allow you to experiment with the style of query and get started with building your own specs. For documentation on downloading and installing Elda, see the the quickstart documentation.

The release notes directory shows the new-form release notes for Elda releases. Also the history notes summarise code changes including bug fixes.

Scientific instruments are producing unprecedented amounts of data, yet our ability to manage and analyze this data has not been keeping up. As the amount of data grows, so does our ability to make new discoveries by integrating and analyze existing datasets.

The Open Science Data Cloud (OSDC) is a large-scale distributed cloud-based infrastructure for managing, analyzing, integrating and sharing scientific data. The OSDC is operated by the Open Cloud Consortium (OCC), which is a not-for-profit supporting the cloud community by operating cloud infrastructure.

To learn more about the OSDC, read about some of the OSDC Projects, take one of our tutorials, or attend an OSDC event.

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