Re: Problems and Opportunities at purl.org

Umm...  I think A == B, in that if somehow the purl.org DNS points to
w3id.org it will just work.  But I don't remember anyone offering us that
domain.  Did they?

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Norman Gray <norman@astro.gla.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> Greetings, all.
>
> [pruning cc's to just the list]
>
> On 1 Mar 2016, at 10:39, Ian Dunlop wrote:
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> I applaud all these efforts to transition towards w3id. Do we have any idea
>> how often PIDs are (were) requested from purl? If it is often then maybe
>> going forward a simple web interface to allow people to add a simple
>> redirect from this to this rule. Even getting people to fork github
>> projects and add a line to a csv is quite often too much.
>>
>
> Can I just check what the goal is, here?
>
> Is it:
>
>   (a) Create a w3id.org redirect for each/most purl.org redirect and
> abandon the purl.org ones in whole or in part?
>
>   (b) Support purl.org as a domain -- ie, support all/most existing
> http://purl.org/.../blah redirects -- even if it's implemented by a
> similar mechanism to w3id.org?
>
>   (c) Work towards a mechanism for creating new purl.org redirects by
> whatever means?
>
> I hope it's not (a) -- I feel it would look un-reassuring to abandon
> well-established persistent identifiers.
>
> Option (b) would surely be a minimum.
>
> I think there's a strong case for aspiring to (c).  The purl.org 'brand'
> is a fairly well-known one, even if it's had its technical troubles in the
> last few years, and being able to support it to the extent of creating new
> purl.org redirects would be an impressive display of community commitment
> to the idea of persistent URIs.
>
>
> All the best,
>
> Norman
>
>
> --
> Norman Gray  :  https://nxg.me.uk
> SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK
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