Re: Problems and Opportunities at purl.org

For those interested in PURL.org and the topic of persistent identifiers, I
just received the following notice from OCLC and archive.org. There is a
new interface provided for maintaining PURLs again via their new home at
the Internet Archive...

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Hello,

We are writing to let you know about some changes to the administration
system
for the PURL redirection service. PURLs are persistent URLs, they provide a
permanent address for resources on the web. The PURL service has a new home
at
the Internet Archive.

The addresses for the PURL redirects will not change, they will continue to
be
hosted on http://purl.org

The operation of the service will remain the same with purl.org URL's
redirecting as before.

However this change brings with it a new interface for changing PURLs. User
management is now handled by the Internet Archive. We have created an
account
for you with the e-mail address <blocked>, but for security reasons it is
not possible to copy your old password.

Once you have reset your password you can make changes to your PURLs by
visiting:

    http://archive.org/services/purl/

If you have any questions you can contact us by replying to this e-mail.

You will find  more information on the background to this move here:
https://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2016/201623dublin.en.html

>From the PURL team at the Internet Archive

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On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Ruth Duerr <ruth.duerr3@gmail.com> wrote:

> I don’t know about being able to port the purl.org stuff to w3id.org; but
> I certainly wish that either:
>
> 1) OCLC starts seriously supporting the purl.org website and gets that
> admin interface back up and running since so many people use it
> 2) It gets ported to r3id.org
>
> Ruth Duerr
>
> On Aug 23, 2016, at 6:57 AM, Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com> wrote:
>
> Semi-resurrecting this thread.  Is there still interest in porting the
> purl.org stuff over to w3id.org?
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 5:19 AM, Thomas Baker <tom@tombaker.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 04:47:20PM +0000, Norman Gray wrote:
>> > >But I don't remember anyone offering us that
>> > >domain.
>> >
>> > My _impression_ was that OCLC was willing to pass on the purl.org
>> > domain, as well as the database contents, to a suitably constituted
>> > successor.  I got that impression because I believe the widely
>> > assumed goal is at least (b), and that wouldn't be possible without
>> > a bequest of the domain.
>>
>> I have posted various updates to the Dublin Core community [1,2,3].  We
>> have not heard anything from OCLC about their plans directly, though Jon
>> Phipps noticed that the OCLC Bib PURL service was coming back online
>> [4].  Cynthia Whitacre of OCLC notes: "Since it was introduced, the
>> programming language in which it was written is no longer used for
>> current OCLC applications.  This has caused challenges as we looked for
>> a solution, but we believe we now have one" but directs users with
>> questions or concerns about purl.org itself to OCLC's Support Desk.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> [1] https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind1511&L=DC-
>> ARCHITECTURE&D=0&P=3711 (Nov 2015)
>> [2] https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind1603&L=DC-
>> ARCHITECTURE&P=11997 (recent)
>> [3] https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind1603&L=DC-
>> ARCHITECTURE&P=14384 (recent)
>> [4] http://listserv.loc.gov/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1603&L=consrlst&T=0&P=490
>>
>> --
>> Tom Baker <tom@tombaker.org>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Shane McCarron
> Managing Director, Applied Testing and Technology, Inc.
>
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