Perma.cc – Permanent Link Service

Re:Perma.cc – Permanent Link Service by didgeoridoo on Monday February 10, 2025 @11:26AM (#43002056)

It’s run by the Harvard Law Library (i.e. backed by a multibillion-dollar university that is substantially older than the country it’s located in) and operated as a decentralized network across multiple public and private library systems.

Like any service, it might shut down due to lack of interest, but I doubt Harvard Law is at risk of “going out of business”.

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Re:Perma.cc – Permanent Link Service by palata on Monday February 10, 2025 @12:41PM (#43002931)

> I doubt Harvard Law is at risk of “going out of business”.

Wait until they publicly criticise Musk.

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Re:Perma.cc – Permanent Link Service by Andrew6rant on Monday February 10, 2025 @12:47PM (#43002995)

There honestly might be a greater chance of something happening to the .cc domain (like what's happening now with .io)

Harvard has a much larger population than the Cocos islands, I don't know why this project decided to rely on a country code tld

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Re:Perma.cc – Permanent Link Service by basch on Monday February 10, 2025 @01:11PM (#43003284)

then the dns providers of the world step in and override it and redirect. hopefully cloudflare can save us.

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Re:Perma.cc – Permanent Link Service by aaroninsf on Monday February 10, 2025 @01:26PM (#43003433)

Any discussion in this domain should include an overview of what happened to PURL and purl.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_uniform_resource_lo...

Regardless of institutional gravitas, projects without wide uptake are mostly doomed on a 20-year horizon.

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Re:Perma.cc – Permanent Link Service by weinzierl on Monday February 10, 2025 @01:30PM (#43003483)

I am glad I am not the only one who remembers that. Most of the time people mean package url when they use purl.

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