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DOI content negotiation
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Remove support for non DC #106

Closed richardhallett closed 2 years ago

richardhallett commented 2 years ago

This removes the support for lookup of non DataCite formats i.e. Crossref

This is a feature change but it's not working properly for Crossref currently.

This can not be merged until final decision is made from product perspective, but just to check I'm not missing something obvious

richardhallett commented 2 years ago

Not worth it imo, plus also I think fundamentally it's weird to come to us for this rather than directly going via doi.org

digitaldogsbody commented 2 years ago

:+1: makes sense to me. The use-case would be that some users find our CSL-JSON better than that of other RA's CN services (see https://github.com/crosscite/content-negotiation/issues/104#issuecomment-1017116334 & https://github.com/crosscite/content-negotiation/issues/104#issuecomment-1020171265) but given that the majority of those requests would be for CrossRef, I think encouraging the users to go via doi.org and take up the non-DataCite DOI output issues with the respective RAs is a perfectly acceptable approach.

richardhallett commented 2 years ago

Yes it is true there is a possibility that our response based on our library that converts could indeed be "better" or at least more useful for certain people. And it's unfortunate, I think for the most part this is affecting Crossref DOIs and as it stands this isn't working at all right now.

I think it's something we should encourage to go via doi.org and work with other RAs.

Additionally the CSL json returned is based on metadata and a third party libraries so it's not beyond question to do something themselves, though granted that's a more complicated workflow.