RE: Problems and Opportunities at purl.org

Yes, indeed this is great news. We at the Montana State Library have not yet received any direct word from the Internet Archive PURL team.  Nor have I found the few PURLs that I have searched on.

Still, I’m very optimistic and looking forward to moving on.

Thank you everyone.

Jim Kammerer

From: dgarijov@gmail.com [mailto:dgarijov@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Daniel Garijo
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 2:59 PM
To: Haag, Jason <jason.haag.ctr@adlnet.gov>
Cc: Pemanent Identifier CG <public-perma-id@w3.org>; Semantic Web Mailing List <semantic-web@w3.org>; Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>; Ruth Duerr <ruth.duerr3@gmail.com>; Thomas Baker <tom@tombaker.org>; Norman Gray <norman@astro.gla.ac.uk>
Subject: 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<mailto: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<http://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<http://purl.org/>

The operation of the service will remain the same with purl.org<http://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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Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative
+1.850.266.7100<tel:%2B1.850.266.7100>(office)
+1.850.471.1300<tel:%2B1.850.471.1300> (mobile)
jhaag75 (skype)
http://linkedin.com/in/jasonhaag


On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Ruth Duerr <ruth.duerr3@gmail.com<mailto:ruth.duerr3@gmail.com>> wrote:
I don’t know about being able to port the purl.org<http://purl.org> stuff to w3id.org<http://w3id.org>; but I certainly wish that either:

1) OCLC starts seriously supporting the purl.org<http://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<http://r3id.org>

Ruth Duerr

On Aug 23, 2016, at 6:57 AM, Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com<mailto:shane@aptest.com>> wrote:

Semi-resurrecting this thread.  Is there still interest in porting the purl.org<http://purl.org/> stuff over to w3id.org<http://w3id.org/>?

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 5:19 AM, Thomas Baker <tom@tombaker.org<mailto: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<http://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<http://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


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