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Short Title

11. HTTP link headers may be supported to advertise content negotiation options.

Source Documnent

A data citation roadmap for scholarly data repositories

Source Document Link

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0031-8

Publishing Organisation

FORCE11.org and BioCADDIE Data Citation implementation Pilot Repositories Expert Group

Date of Publication

2021-04-10

Topic

Metadata richness/ ingest/ submission, Machine-actionability

Addressed Stakeholders

data service providers

Keywords

HTTP link headers, content negotiation

Text

The persistent identifier (see guideline #2) and available content negotiation options (see guideline #9) may be provided in a HTTP link header. This facilitates discovery of content nego- tiation options and makes it easier to fetch the identifier from large landing pages, as only a HTTP head request is needed).