> On Oct 23, 2014, at 11:45 AM, Joe Hourcle <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I found this blog post talking about CrossRef's support: >> >> http://www.crossref.org/CrossTech/2011/04/content_negotiation_for_crossr.html >> >> But I know DataCite supports it to some extent too. >> >> Does anyone know if there's overall registrar-agnostic documentation from >> DOI for this service? > > None that I'm aware of. We've actually been discussing this issue in a > breakout from 'Data Citation Implementors Group', and I think we're currently > leaning towards not relying solely on content negotiation, but also using > HTTP Link headers or HTML link elements to make it possible to discover the > other formats that the metadata may be available.
I don’t know if the following is helpful or not, but CrossRef has implemented an API allowing the developer to use content negotiation to retrieve links to full text and/or metadata, and I wrote a hack to implement the idea — http://blogs.nd.edu/emorgan/2014/06/tdm/ —Eric Morgan
