DataCite's Content Service ready for testing
Edward Zukowski
I am happy to announce availability of DataCite's Content Service. The
service can be accessed at http://data.datacite.org
The Content Service service exposes our metadata stored in the
DataCite Metadata Store (MDS) using multiple formats. In the future we
plan to add serving content (data and custom metadata) direcly from
data centres who participate in DataCite. This will require storing
additional URLs in MDS database so we need to get this done first (we
have already implementation in testing).
There are two ways of using Content Service: (1) HTTP content
negotiation or (2) HTML links.
(1) With HTTP content negotiation the important point is that for
standards like RDF which are not specific for any IDF Registration
Agency you resolve DOI with Accept header to get the metadata the same
way you resolve DOI to get to the landing page i.e. without need to
know where the DOI was registered in the first place. For examples
please see http://data.datacite.org
(2) HTML links are useful when you just want to link to our metadata
(in contrast to making HTTP GET with Accept header). The prime example
is our Search service (http://search.datacite.org) where we link
search results to HTML representation of metadata which in turn links
to representation in BibTeX and RIS.
This is a alpha release so I encourage you to test the service and I
would love to hear your feedback especially regarding RDF
representations.
Last but not least I'd like to thank all who contributed to this
release. Extra special thanks go to Geoffrey Bilder and Karl Ward from
CrossRef.
Best wishes,
Ed