Metadata Resources Scenario

Landing Page (which is a Content Resource) ➞ Metadata Resources

The use of Typed Links in the HTTP Link header is illustrated for the paper:

Lotts, M. Building bridges, creating partnerships, and elevating the Arts: The Rutgers University Art Library Exhibition Spaces. College & Research Libraries News 77, 5 (May 2016), 226–230. https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.77.5.9490.:

This is a summary of the links that should be provided:

  • The Landing Page should have links with the describedby relation type pointing at each Metadata Resource that describes the scholarly object. This includes a link to metadata provided by a Persistent Identifier provider (e.g. CrossRef, DataCite), if applicable.
  • Each describedby link should have attributes to express the MIME type and possibly profile of the resource that is the target of the link.
  • Metadata Resources that are provided by the repository that is the custodian of the scholarly object should link back to its Landing Page with the describes relation type.

Link Headers for the Metadata Resources pattern

Visualization of link relations

The HTTP Link Header to link to metadata from the Landing Page URI
https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/9490 is:		 
$ curl -I "https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/9490"

Link: <https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/rt/captureCite/9490/10768/ProCiteCitationPlugin>
 ; rel="describedby"
 ; type="application/x-research-info-systems",
 <https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/rt/captureCite/9490/10768/EndNoteCitationPlugin>
 ; rel="describedby"
 ; type="application/x-endnote-refer"
The HTTP Link header to link back to the landing page for the RIS metadata URI
https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/rt/captureCite/9490/10768/ProCiteCitationPlugin is:		 
$ curl -I "https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/citation/ris?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0115253"

Link: <https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/9490> ; rel="describes" ; type="text/html"
The HTTP Link header to link back to the landing page for the Endnote metadata URI
https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/rt/captureCite/9490/10768/EndNoteCitationPlugin is:		 
$ curl -I "https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/rt/captureCite/9490/10768/EndNoteCitationPlugin"

Link: <https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/9490> ; rel="describes" ; type="text/html"