PURLs

Since I've been at least peripherally involved with PURLs since their inception, and now heavily involved in their reimplementation, I enjoyed reading Stu Weibel's latest post PURLy Gates and Gift Horses (from Paris -- is he trying to make us jealous?).

As Stu mentioned we are in the final stages of redoing the code.  After acceptance testing we'll have to work out a transition plan to minimize disruption.  The end result should be (open source) code that both does a better job at what PURLs do now, and is embeddable in systems that need to handle URI indirection (the need is becoming almost universal).

Zepheira.com is doing the programming on PURLs.  But this is Eric Miller's company and they are deeply interested in making PURLs much more widely used and appreciated. 

--Th

Comments

[Stu]

heck yes... did it work?

Response: Yup, it did make me a bit jealous.
--Th