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In my prototype, I've added an XML datastream, UNAPI-FORMATS, to a content model object. This datastream describes the disseminations that should be considered an unAPI format. Originally, I intended to describe the formats in RDF, but at least for purposes of the prototype, I'm using JSON (wrapped with <json> tags so that I could have an inline XML datastream). For example:

<json>
  [["info:fedora/*/DC","oai_dc","text/xml","http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"],
  ["info:fedora/*/sdef:md/get?format=mods","mods","applicationtext/xml","http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd"]]
</json>  

This is an array of arrays. Those familiar with the Resource Index circa Fedora 2.x might be familiar with the first (inner) array element, which we called a dissemination type. It is simply a dissemination URI where the PID of the object is replaced with a "*". The remaining elements correspond directly to the unAPI format elements. Again, this particular implementation was an expedient. A more Fedora-esque solution might employ an sDef & sDep to bind against a service that generated the JSON (or RDF) array.

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One noteworthy detail: Zotero doesn't appear to parse any other format than mods, at least when using unAPI. In my server access logs, after the request for the object (e.g. http://example.org/fedora/get/demo:1), the next request is for the mods format (e.g., http://example.org/unapi/fedora?id=info:fedora/demo:1). I don't see any requests for the various formats that might be available for that resource (e.g. http://example. org:8080/unapi/fedora?id=info:fedora/demo:1 http://example.org/unapi/fedora?id=info:fedora/demo:1). This is using Zotero 1.0.7, I haven't tried the 1.5 preview release.

Once I added a mods MODS datastream to my Fedora objects, browsing to an object's profile view yielded the little blue icon in my browser's location bar, indicating that Zotero could grok my Fedora object.

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