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Show HN: A Url Permanence Service

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Re: Show HN: A Url Permanence Service

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post #10

This is a good idea in theory, but not if in form of a company. This would require something like a consortium where Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook, ... and a few more federates to create a service paying for the bill and with the intention to take it up for the future as long as possible.

Plus there's already a service that does the same thing, is free, and is heavily relied upon, WebCite.

There's also the DOI system that mostly solves this problem for more permanent material ( research articles).

Re: Show HN: A Url Permanence Service

#24
If you have an interested in permanent identifiers, you might also be interested the archival resource key standard https://wiki.ucop.edu/display/Curation/ARK and the EZID service http://n2t.net/ezid/ . Disclaimer, I work at the same digital library where the standard and the service are developed and maintained.

Re: Show HN: A Url Permanence Service

#25
post #8

Interesting choice to use a Libyan domain for a service like this.

How is using a Libyan domain interesting here? Bit.ly is doing it.

"The Libyan governing authority for .ly domains, NIC.ly, explained this week that domains that run afoul of the country's 'morality' laws are being taken offline"

http://arstechnica.com/business/2010/10/libya-beginning-to-p...

Re: Show HN: A Url Permanence Service

#28
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is using a Libyan domain interesting here? Bit.ly is doing it.

"The Libyan governing authority for .ly domains, NIC.ly, explained this week that domains that run afoul of the country's 'morality' laws are being taken offline" http://arstechnica.com/business/2010/10/libya-beginning-to-p...

I'd say a lot has changed in Libya since 2010...

Re: Show HN: A Url Permanence Service

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I did something similar as a weekend project, haven't checked-up on it in a while but it seems to still work: http://const.it/http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240529...

The original idea was just to provide a consistent link which would fallback to a cache when necessary and back to the original content for reddit/hn type traffic. Then it made sense to do some paywall busting and readability functionality on top of it and those features overshadowed the original concerns.

Re: Show HN: A Url Permanence Service

#30
post #6

Sounds cool, but only as long as purl.ly itself is up. We’ve seen what happens with single point of failure services like this when twitter’s link shortener t.co was down.

Actually, if you notice, the purl.ly link has the original link after it. Even if purl.ly goes down, there's at least SOME reference to be tracked down. Relatively graceful, especially when compared to a WebCite link: http://www.webcitation.org/5IfzstWm1
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