FAIR Signposting API

Signposting specifies the use of typed web links to interlink resources of a Digital Object and it specifies which link relation types to use to link to which resources. All of this is done in a standards-based manner, with link types drawn from the IANA link relation registry. FAIR Signposting is a detailed implementation guideline that aims for uniformity in the provision of these typed links across systems.

FAIR signposting uses a standards-based REST approach and is a concrete Implementation Guideline for Signposting aimed at uniformity across systems: Typed web links available via landing page, content resources, metadata resources; Typed links are a small subset of IANA-registered relation types defined in formal specifications.

Reference:

• Web Linking (RFC 8288)
• IANA Link Relations
• FAIR Signposting

Related:

• User Interface