FAIRiCat: Supporting Discovery of a Repository's Interoperability Affordances

Document Type

Blog

Publication Date

2024

Publication Title

Signposting the Scholarly Web

Abstract

In order to meet FAIR expectations, repositories provide affordances to support Finding, Accessing, Interoperating, and Reusing the scholarly objects they manage. Some affordances focus on supporting machine interaction with scholarly content and entail implementing common specifications as well as repository-specific machine interfaces. Discovering whether and which interoperability affordances are provided by a repository remains a challenge. Some specifications describe how to advertise a compliant interface, but, the discovery approach is different for different specifications. Other specifications don't detail an approach to discover a compliant interface and rely on a central registry instead. For yet other specifications, no way to advertise compliance exists. This document describes the FAIR Interoperability Catalogue - FAIRiCat - approach that repositories can uniformly use to advertise the interoperability affordances they provide. FAIRiCats can be used manually as a way to obtain a quick overview of the interoperability characteristics of a repository. They can be used in automatic processes by clients that are looking for specific approaches to interoperate with a repository, e.g. via OAI-PMH, SPARQL, Sitemaps, Linked Data Notifications.

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© 2024 The Authors.

Signposting the Scholarly Web by http://signposting.org is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License.

Original Publication Citation

Van de Sompel, H., Huber, R., Hochstenbach, P., Nelson, M. L., Klein, M., Bollini, A., Meijers, E., Knoth, P., Walk, P., Hugo, W., & Meyers, J. (2024). FAIRiCat: Supporting discovery of a repository's interoperability affordances. Signposting the Scholarly Web. https://signposting.org/FAIRiCat/

ORCID

0000-0003-3749-8116 (Nelson)

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