Protocol reference

The COAR Notify Protocol consists of documented community conventions for the use of W3C Linked Data Notifications (LDN) to integrate repository systems with relevant services in a distributed, resilient and web-native architecture.

Our COAR Notify Server is an implementation of the COAR Notify Protocol v1.0.1, please refer to their specification to implement your own client.

Authentication

At this point the Security aspects of the protocol are not standardized yet. To properly authenticate calls to our Inbox and guarantee that only trusted partners are allowed a write access to our metadata storage we decided to implement a Token based authentication system.

The token has to to be sent with the HTTP headers accompanying every calls you make to the API: Authorization: Token <TOKEN>.