Metadata Resources Pattern

Landing Page ➞ Metadata Resources

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

Jenkins, S. D., and Ruostekoski, J. Controlled manipulation of light by cooperative response of atoms in an optical lattice. Article on University of Southampton Institutional Research Repository ePrints Soton at https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/338797, Dec. 2011.

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://eprints.soton.ac.uk/338797 is:		 
$ curl -I "https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/338797"

Link: <https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/cgi/export/eprint/338797/RIS/eps-eprint-338797.ris>
 ; rel="describedby"
 ; type="application/x-research-info-systems",
 <https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/cgi/export/eprint/338797/BibTeX/eps-eprint-338797.bib>
 ; rel="describedby"
 ; type="application/x-bibtex",
 <https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/cgi/export/eprint/338797/MODS/eps-eprint-338797.xml>
 ; rel="describedby"
 ; type="application/xml"
 ; profile="https://www.loc.gov/mods"
The HTTP Link header to link back to the landing page for the RIS metadata URI
https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/cgi/export/eprint/338797/RIS/eps-eprint-338797.ris is:		 
$ curl -I "https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/cgi/export/eprint/338797/RIS/eps-eprint-338797.ris"

Link: <https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/338797> ; rel="describes" ; type="text/html"
The HTTP Link header to link back to the landing page for the BibTeX metadata URI
https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/cgi/export/eprint/338797/BibTeX/eps-eprint-338797.bib is:		 
$ curl -I "https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/cgi/export/eprint/338797/BibTeX/eps-eprint-338797.bib"

Link: <https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/338797> ; rel="describes" ; type="text/html"
The HTTP Link header to link back to the landing page for the MODS metadata URI
https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/cgi/export/eprint/338797/MODS/eps-eprint-338797.xml is:		 
$ curl -I "https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/cgi/export/eprint/338797/MODS/eps-eprint-338797.xml"

Link: <https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/338797> ; rel="describes" ; type="text/html"