FeatureComputer and Information Sciences

Upcoming Changes to DOI Content Negotiation

https://doi.org/10.53731/r79s2b1-97aq74v-ag4sc
Published in Front Matter

DOI content negotiation is one of the oldest DataCite services, launched in 2012. Content negotiation makes it easy to fetch DataCite metadata in other metadata formats, for example BibTeX or schema.org , or as formatted citation in one of more than 5,000 citation styles. For example:curl -LH "Accept: application/x-bibtex" https://doi.org/10.5438/0000-0C2G In 2017 we updated the service, both adding new content types (e.g.

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Computer and information sciences

A Content Negotiation Update

https://doi.org/10.53731/r7adm61-97aq74v-ag5kv
Published

While it is a best practice for DOIs (expressed as URL) to send the user to the landing page for that resource (Starr et al., 2015), sometimes we want something else: <strong> metadata </strong> , e.g. to generate a citation, or to go to the <strong> content </strong> itself. The easiest way to do that is to use DOI content negotiation.