[Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit|http://www.swordapp.org/], or SWORD, is a profile of the Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) and was developed to provide a general, lightweight protocol for depositing content to a repository.\\

The original [project|http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/reppres/tools/sword.aspx] was funded by JISC with Phase 1 running from March to November, 2007, and Phase 2 from June to November, 2008.  Contributing institutions were UKOLN (University of Bath0, University of Wales (Aberystwyth), the University of Southampton and Intrallect Ltd.\\

The [list of implementations|http://www.swordapp.org/sword/implementations] shows that the protocol is proving to be popular.