A bit about PURLs
Ed Summers,
inkdroid,
Dec 20, 2021
An old standard, permanent URLs (PURL) has almost vanished from the mainstream. I've written about it a few times over the years. I've been a bit sceptical because government and commercial organizations don't really have a good track record for maintaining persistent resources or services. This article describes what's been happening over the last decade or so with PURL, including the 2016 move of purl.org to Internet Archive, and subsequent rebound in usage. Even so, as this article shows, there's a good percentage of PURLs that resolve to errors or uncertain results. Via Tom Woodward.
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