Failure rate on resolving DOIs via CrossRef is high enough that I'd argue for belt && braces
Owen
Owen Stephens
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On 21 Nov 2012, at 15:08, "Young,Jeff (OR)" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> If the referent has a DOI, then I would argue that
> rft_id=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2132176.2132212 is all you need. The
> descriptive information that typically goes in the ContextObject can be
> obtained (if necessary) by content-negotiating for application/rdf+xml.
> OTOH, if someone pokes this same URI from a browser instead, you will
> generally get redirected to the publisher's web site with the full-text
> close at hand.
>
> The same principle should apply for any bibliographic resource that has
> a Linked Data identifier.
>
> Jeff
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of
>> Owen Stephens
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 9:55 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] OpenURL linking but from the content
> provider's
>> point of view
>>
>> The only difference between COinS and a full OpenURL is the addition
> of
>> a link resolver address. Most databases that provide OpenURL links
>> directly (rather than simply COinS) use some profile information -
>> usually set by the subscribing library, although some based on
>> information supplied by an individual user. If set by the library this
>> is then linked to specific users by IP or by login.
>>
>> There are a couple(?) of generic base URLs you can use which will try
>> to redirect to an appropriate link resolver based on IP range of the
>> requester, with fallback options if it can't find an appropriate
>> resolver (I think this is how the WorldCat resolver works? The
> 'OpenURL
>> Router' in the UK definitely works like this)
>>
>> The LibX toolbar allows users to set their link resolver address, and
>> then translates COinS into OpenURLs when you view a page - all user
>> driven, no need for the data publisher to do anything beyond COinS
>>
>> There is also the 'cookie pusher' solution which ArXiv uses - where
> the
>> user can set a cookie containing the base URL, and this is picked up
>> and used by ArXiV (http://arxiv.org/help/openurl)
>>
>> Owen
>>
>> PS it occurs to me that the other part of the question is 'what
>> metadata should be included in the OpenURL to give it the best chance
>> of working with a link resolver'?
>>
>> Owen Stephens
>> Owen Stephens Consulting
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>>
>> On 20 Nov 2012, at 19:39, David Lawrence <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have some experience with the library side of link resolver code.
>>> However, we want to implement OpenURL hooks on our open access
>>> literature database and I can not find where to begin.
>>>
>>> SafetyLit is a free service of San Diego State University in
>>> cooperation with the World Health Organization. We already provide
>>> embedded metadata in both COinS and unAPI formats to allow its
>> capture
>>> by Mendeley, Papers, Zotero, etc. Over the past few months, I have
>>> emailed or talked with many people and read everything I can get my
>>> hands on about this but I'm clearly not finding the right people or
>> information sources.
>>>
>>> Please help me to find references to examples of the code that is
>>> required on the literature database server that will enable library
>>> link resolvers to recognize the SafetyLit.org metadata and allow
>>> appropriate linking to full text.
>>>
>>> SafetyLit.org receives more than 65,000 unique (non-robot) visitors
>>> and the database responds to almost 500,000 search queries every
>> week.
>>> The most frequently requested improvement is to add link resolver
>> capacity.
>>>
>>> I hope that code4lib users will be able to help.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>> David W. Lawrence, PhD, MPH, Director
>>> Center for Injury Prevention Policy and Practice San Diego State
>>> University, School of Public Health
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>>> www.SafetyLit.org
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