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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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