[Esip-preserve] DataCite to require "landing pages"

[Bruce Barkstrom]

Maybe it would be useful to figure out what criteria should govern
a selection and then invite technical proposals that could be
measured against that criteria.

Bruce B.

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Greg Janée <gjanee at eri.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> On Feb 29, 2012, at 2:34 PM, Mark A. Parsons wrote:
>>
>> Landing pages should ultimately be both human and machine readable.
>
>
> I've always thought this would be the best of both worlds, as both humans
> and programmatic clients can then get representations of resources that they
> can do something with.  But we seem to be hampered by the lack of an
> agreed-upon technical approach.  Is this something that ESIP might like to
> look at?  Two approaches that have been suggested:
>
> 1. Content negotiation.  Clients use HTTP's Accept header mechanism to
> request a specific representation of a resource: RDF, OAI-ORE, etc.
>  DataCite has put together an alpha version of this concept at
> http://data.datacite.org/.  I don't think there are (yet) any guidelines as
> to what resource types return what information in what ways.
>
> 2. Identifier "inflections".  This is an idea proposed by John Kunze at CDL.
>  A client can request a specific representation by adding a syntactic cue to
> the identifier.  For example, it's already part of the ARK specification
> that appending a question mark (?) to an identifier returns metadata;
> perhaps appending a slash (/) requests a "landing page" or other
> human-oriented experience as opposed the resource directly.
>
> -Greg
>
>
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