[tdwg-tag] FW: Announcing PURL Federation Development Effort

[Kevin Richards]

An interesting bit of GUID work...

Kevin

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From: semantic-web-request at w3.org [mailto:semantic-web-request at w3.org] On Behalf Of David Wood
Sent: Tuesday, 23 March 2010 7:00 a.m.
To: purl-dev
Cc: purl-interest; semweb-31 at meetup.com; DCMI Architecture Forum; semantic-web; public-lod
Subject: Announcing PURL Federation Development Effort

Hi all,

The National Center for Biomedical Ontology and Zepheira are pleased to announce work on a PURL Federation.  A PURL Federation will allow multiple PURL service operators to cooperate in PURL resolutions, covering for each other in the case of service outages and allowing the persistent resolution of PURLs as funding levels and organizational details change with time.

PURL Federations are intended to enhance the ability of Semantic Web and Linked Data communities to ensure the persistence of their identifiers.

Prototypes of the PURL Federation code will be released occasionally in the coming months, with an Alpha version to be released in the Summer of 2010.  Further announcements of releases will be made on the purl-dev mailing list and on http://purlz.org.

The architecture document guiding the development of a PURL Federation is available at:
  http://purlz.org/project/purl/development/wiki/PURLFederationArchitecture

Review and feedback on the proposed architecture is encouraged.  We want to hear your use cases and good ideas.  Thanks in advance.


Regards,
Dave
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David Wood
Partner
Zepheira - The Art of Data
http://zepheira.com/team/dave/
Cell: +1 540 538 9137








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