Re: Problems and Opportunities at purl.org

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 4:16 PM, David Wood <david@3roundstones.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> OCLC has been having significant trouble maintaining purl.org, which has
> led to both a lot of discussions on the PURLz software community list, but
> reductions in service.
>
> Logins at purl.org are currently disallowed, so PURLs are not
> maintainable. Searching is also disabled. Libraries and researchers are
> suffering from the loss.
>
> The PURLz discussions are being held here (subscription required):
>   https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/persistenturls
>
> Monica Omodei of the Australian National Data Service proposed that this
> group and/or the operators of the w3id.org service, simply take over
> purl.org. Jeff Young at OCLC, the current part-time maintainer of purl.org,
> thinks it is a good idea.
>
> The question is, do we wish to take over purl.org? Could we? I am (very)
> willing to put time and effort into this, but note that the challenges
> include providing a user-friendly user interface over the current w3id.org
>  system.
>

Sounds like a good idea. Not being a user of purl.org and not being
familiar with its interface, what is missing in our current Github-based
workflow?

Steph.