Infrastructure

Various systems (e.g. Elsevier) would like to be able to link with content available in DataONE and provide their users with a view of the content. Rather than having these 3rd party systems grok the DataONE APIs and construct systems to retrieve elements of a package, it would be helpful if DataONE provided a rendering service.

Given a PID, the service would determine the package(s) that the content belongs to, and would generate HTML5 that provides a description of the data package, where the content can be retrieved, which member node provided the object, references to other elements in the package, perhaps revisions to the content, and other details useful to a potential user of the data.

The generated HTML may be embedded within other pages such as within a div element, and so consideration for such support should be made (e.g., support complete page generation vs fragment generation; generate well formed HTML that can be processed with XML parsing / xpath operations).