diff --git a/dhp-workflows/dhp-aggregation/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/transformation/xslt/DataFetcher.java b/dhp-workflows/dhp-aggregation/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/transformation/xslt/DataFetcher.java
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+package eu.dnetlib.dhp.transformation.xslt;
+
+import com.mongodb.util.JSON;
+import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
+import org.json.JSONObject;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
+import java.util.List;
+
+
+/**
+ * This class fetches JSON from a provided link and returns
+ * a Dublin Core. This functionality is particularly needed for OSF Preprints
+ */
+
+/**
+ * this method fetches JSON from a provided URL and returns it as JSON Object
+ */
+public class DataFetcher {
+    // fetch data
+    static JSONObject getJson(URL url) throws IOException {
+
+        String json = IOUtils.toString(url);
+        return new JSONObject(json);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method extracts authors (contributors) from a given JSON
+     * @param jsonObject
+     * @return
+     */
+    static List<String> getContributorsFromJson(JSONObject jsonObject){
+        List<String> contributors;
+
+        // count of authors
+        int countAuthors = jsonObject.getJSONArray("data").length();
+
+
+//        jsonObject.getJSONArray("data").forEach(json1 -> System.out.println(json1));
+
+
+
+//        String x = testJsonObj
+//                .getJSONArray("data")
+//                .getJSONObject(0)
+//                .getJSONObject("embeds")
+//                .getJSONObject("users")
+//                .getJSONObject("data")
+//                .getJSONObject("attributes")
+//                .getString("full_name");
+
+        return null;
+
+
+    }
+
+
+    // transform it into Dublin Core
+    private void transformToDublinCore(JSON jsonData) {
+        System.out.println(jsonData);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/dhp-workflows/dhp-aggregation/src/test/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/transformation/xslt/DataFetcherTest.java b/dhp-workflows/dhp-aggregation/src/test/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/transformation/xslt/DataFetcherTest.java
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+package eu.dnetlib.dhp.transformation.xslt;
+
+import org.json.JSONArray;
+import org.json.JSONObject;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterEach;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.URI;
+import java.net.URISyntaxException;
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+import java.util.stream.IntStream;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.*;
+
+class DataFetcherTest {
+
+    @BeforeEach
+    void setUp() {
+    }
+
+    @AfterEach
+    void tearDown() {
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void getJson() throws IOException, URISyntaxException {
+        URL contributorsUrl = new URI("https://api.osf.io/v2/preprints/mrwqb/contributors/?format=json").toURL();
+        JSONObject testJsonObj = DataFetcher.getJson(contributorsUrl);
+
+        String x = testJsonObj
+                .getJSONArray("data")
+                .getJSONObject(0)
+                .getJSONObject("embeds")
+                .getJSONObject("users")
+                .getJSONObject("data")
+                .getJSONObject("attributes")
+                .getString("full_name");
+
+        System.out.println(x);
+
+        System.out.println(testJsonObj.getJSONArray("data").length());
+
+        testJsonObj.getJSONArray("data").forEach(json1 -> System.out.println(json1));
+
+
+    }
+}
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