Re: Problems and Opportunities at purl.org

I got this message as well. These are awesome news, although most of my
purls are not there yet (at the moment, only one, and I couldn't edit it :(
)
I hope they finalize migrating the purls so we can edit them. This is
definitely a step in the right direction.
Best,
Daniel


2016-09-27 13:02 GMT-07:00 Haag, Jason <jason.haag.ctr@adlnet.gov>:

> 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...
>
> ---------------------------------------
>
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>