FAIRsharing record for: FAIR Signposting

This FAIRsharing record describes: FAIR Signposting is an intentionally simple, standards-based, RESTful "follow your nose" approach to help software agents navigate among the various resources that make up a research artifact on the web. FAIR Signposting does so by revealing the topology of the research artifact by means of unambiguously typed links that interconnect its various constituent web resources. The typed links reveal what the persistent identifier of a research artifact is, what the type of artifact it is, where its landing page is, where its content resources are and of which kind they are, where metadata that describes the artifact in which format can be found, what the persistent identifier of its authors is, which license applies to it. The approach is not descriptive (i.e. not metadata driven) but navigational (i.e. URI/link driven), allowing a software agent to find a pathway from one resource that is part of a research artifact to another, in order to accomplish a task at hand. The link types that are used are IANA-registered. The links can be conveyed using a Link Set, HTTP Link headers, or HTML links.

本FAIRsharing记录阐述的内容为：FAIR 指引（FAIR Signposting）是一种刻意简化、基于标准且符合REST架构的“随链接自主导航”方案，旨在帮助软件智能体在Web上构成研究成果的各类资源间进行导航。FAIR 指引通过将研究成果的各组成Web资源以明确标注类型的链接进行互联，以此揭示研究成果的资源拓扑结构。这类带类型的链接可揭示如下信息：研究成果的永久标识符、成果所属类型、着陆页地址、内容资源的位置与类型、对应格式的成果描述元数据的存储位置、作者的永久标识符，以及适用的许可协议。该机制并非描述性（即非元数据驱动），而是导航性（即基于统一资源标识符（URI，Uniform Resource Identifier）/链接驱动）的，可使软件智能体在研究成果的某一资源与其他相关资源间寻得导航路径，以完成当前任务。所使用的链接类型均已在互联网编号分配机构（IANA，Internet Assigned Numbers Authority）完成注册。这类链接可通过链接集（Link Set）、HTTP链接头（HTTP Link headers）或HTML链接三种形式进行传递。