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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
by didgeoridoo 2y ago
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”.
- palata 2y ago> I doubt Harvard Law is at risk of “going out of business”. Wait until they publicly criticise Musk.
- Artemon 2y ago[dead]
- Andrew6rant 2y agoThere 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
- basch 2y agothen the dns providers of the world step in and override it and redirect. hopefully cloudflare can save us.
- aaroninsf 2y agoAny discussion in this domain should include an overview of what happened to PURL and purl.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_uniform_resource_locator 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.
- weinzierl 2y agoI am glad I am not the only one who remembers that. Most of the time people mean package url when they use purl.