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Background

unAPI is an HTTP API for the few basic operations necessary to copy discrete, identified content from any kind of web application. Although there's general utility in having Fedora support unAPI, the real motivation is enabling the automatic capture of citation information in Zotero.

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What's called for is a programmatic means of indicating which representations of an object should be considered formats, at least as far as unAPI is concerned. A content model savvy approach might enable a dissemination that returned the unAPI formats appropriate for a given content model instance. Wiki Markup\[ diagram here\]

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:

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