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It looks like OCLC may be making some changes to the PURL service. The other day I found Big in Japan. It is a toolbox of Web services. Mash-up RSS feeds, RSS to e-mail, podcasting service, and elfURL among aother tools. ElfURL is a service to change a long URL into a shorter one. Much like Tiny URL. ElfURL adds the ability to tag the link. Big in Japan is worth a look. Maybe the folks at OCLC should investigate tagging the PURLs. Would that make it more acceptable to the community?

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- Oclc's Purl Server
OCLC has a new version of their PURL server running.The software is open source and was written for us by Zepheira. The original specifications for the new software allowed for some variation in the exact operation of PURLs. Our thinking was that part...

- Purl 2.0 Coming Soon
OCLC has announced an update to the PURL service.OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and Zepheira, LLC announced today that they will work together to rearchitect OCLC's Persistent URL (PURL) service to more effectively support the management...

- Oclc Purl Server
This meaasge from Tom Dehn was distributed on the PURL-L e-mail distribution list.There are 58000+ spam sites in the PURL Server.I am working on a means to delete them (It needs further development and testing).The PURL server has been available to anyone...

- The Link Element & A Page's Purl
I don't understand why Persistent URLs are not more common. Using the LINK element in HTML documents to indicate a page's PURL is another tool that may make them more common.Bookmarking a page that has a PURL is difficult. The user must know about...

- Persistent Url
There is another PURL service available U-ID. This is a for profit organization. Seems to me the OCLC PURL system would be a better option for libraries. There is the need for these services. I just wonder why the OCLC service has not caught on more widely....



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