This blog post addresses concerns with the stability of purl for hosting permanent URIs. As a possible alternative, the author presents w3id.org, an effort launched by the W3C permanent identifier community group that has been adopted by a great part of the community and is supported by several companies.

URL: https://linkingresearch.wordpress.com/2016/01/17/permanent-identifiers-and-vocabulary-publication-purl-org-and-w3id/
Keywords: Persistent Uniform Resource Locator (PURL), GitHub, HTTP URIs
Author: dgarijov
Date created: 2016-01-17 05:00:00.000
Language: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng
Time required: P15M
Educational use: professionalDevelopment
Educational audience: student
Interactivity type: expositive

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