PURL

Persistent Uniform Resource Locator: a web address that points at a resolver instead of the resource, so the target can move without breaking links. OCLC introduced it in 1995 and ran purl.org, where Dublin Core and many other vocabularies keep their namespaces, until it handed the service to the Internet Archive in September 2016.

Read the specification ↗ purl.archive.org

Part of threads Names that outlive their hosts proposes; Who pays for public data infrastructure? proposes

maintained by

• Internet Archive organization 1996 (2016) [src]
• OCLC organization 1967 [src]

created by

• Erik Jul person [src]
• Stuart Weibel person [src]

built upon by

• Dublin Core standard 1995 [src]
  namespaces at purl.org/dc/

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_uniform_resource_locator