On 19 Jan 2011, at 10:05, Ian Stuart wrote:

> On 19/01/11 09:49, Scott Wilson wrote:
>> I would suggest SWORD is completely agnostic on the subject of
>> packaged content formats, but that the SWORD implementation community
>> make a concerted effort to identify and support a common core of
>> packaging and metadata formats so that there is practical
>> on-the-ground interoperability with a reliable default format for
>> client implementations to support out-of-the-box.
> Bearing in mind that I have my tongue embedded firmly in my cheek here...

Oh good!

> I have an excellent content package that will either work with binary data 
> directly included or passed-by-reference, and I am working on Importers for 
> DSpace & EPrints as we speak... as outputs of the OA-RJ Broker work.

I suggest we standardise on a really crappy packaging format with almost zero 
features, combined with a totally inadequate metadata schema. At least that way 
it might actually work.*

> On a serious note: yes - the transport mechanism should be agnostic to the 
> content... unless one wants to define a content transfer mechanism rather 
> than a transport mechanism :)
> 
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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better

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