Type Scenario

Landing Page (which is a Content Resource) ➞ Type URI

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

Jones, S., Van de Sompel, H., Shankar, H., Klein, M., Tobin, R., and Grover, C. Scholarly Context Adrift: Three out of Four URI References Lead to Changed Content. PLoS ONE, 11(12): e0167475 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0167475.

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

  • The Landing Page should have a link with the type relation type to convey the type of the scholarly object.

Link Headers for the Type pattern

Visualization of link relations

The HTTP Link header to express the scholarly object type for the scholarly object with Landing Page HTTP URI (which is also a content resource)
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0167475 is:		 
$ curl -I "https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0167475"

Link: <https://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle> ; rel="type"