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<p class="MsoNormal">SJ, I had a similar question about PURL ~7-8 years ago as I was considering using it for a project but in the interim the Internet Archive is now maintaining it to ensure persistence.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Depends on your needs, what makes the best sense. I found these articles which might help with making a decision:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://arks.org/about/comparing-arks-and-other-identifiers/" title="https://arks.org/about/comparing-arks-and-other-identifiers/"><span style="color:purple">Comparing ARKs, DOIs and other identifier systems
– ARK Alliance</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://direct.mit.edu/dint/article/2/1-2/30/9992/Unique-Persistent-Resolvable-Identifiers-as-the" title="https://direct.mit.edu/dint/article/2/1-2/30/9992/Unique-Persistent-Resolvable-Identifiers-as-the"><span style="color:purple">Unique,
Persistent, Resolvable: Identifiers as the Foundation of FAIR | Data Intelligence | MIT Press</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/56/tonkin/"><span style="color:purple">Persistent Identifiers: Considering the Options - Ariadne</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/14978" title="https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/14978"><span style="color:purple">The Code4Lib Journal – Persistent identifiers for heritage objects</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Hope this helps along with Donny’s messages
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><fair-data-stewardship-bounces@mit.edu> on behalf of Donny Winston <donny@polyneme.xyz><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, October 14, 2021 at 6:21 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"fair-data-stewardship@mit.edu" <fair-data-stewardship@mit.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [fair-data-stewardship] Persistent URL service for semantic-web docs?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As a quick follow-up, I realize it could also work well to get an ARN NAAN (name assigning authority number) and set up resolution via n2t.net to a github pages static website (just like the w3id.org examples I gave, and then URLs like
<a href="https://n2t.net/ark:12025/path/to/thing">https://n2t.net/ark:12025/path/to/thing</a> would resolve to your github pages site or whatever (the above is registered on n2t.net to resolve to "<a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ark:$id">http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ark:$id</a>"
with suffix passthrough, i.e. <a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/ark:/12025/path/to/thing">
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/ark:/12025/path/to/thing</a> , which is a 404 of course. So you could give a n2.net URL as the canonical URL (like doi.org as canonical for a DOI) but have everything actually hosted on github pages or whatever,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Oct 13, 2021, at 9:48 AM, Donny Winston wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I know a couple of groups that use <a href="https://w3id.org/">
https://w3id.org/</a> , which has a nice github-based maintenance workflow (<a href="https://github.com/perma-id/w3id.org#creating-a-new-identifier">https://github.com/perma-id/w3id.org#creating-a-new-identifier</a>).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">One example is the LinkML project:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">example URL: <a href="https://w3id.org/linkml/SchemaDefinition">
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https://linkml.io/linkml-model/docs/SchemaDefinition/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">via .htaccess file registered in the w3id.org github repo: <a href="https://github.com/perma-id/w3id.org/blob/master/linkml/.htaccess">
https://github.com/perma-id/w3id.org/blob/master/linkml/.htaccess</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Another example is this Materials Design Ontology project:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">example URL: <code><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://w3id.org/mdo/full/">https://w3id.org/mdo/full/</a></span></code><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><code><span style="font-size:10.0pt">resolves to: </span></code><a href="https://huanyu-li.github.io/mdo/full/1.0/index.html">https://huanyu-li.github.io/mdo/full/1.0/index.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">via .htaccess file at: <a href="https://github.com/perma-id/w3id.org/blob/master/mdo/.htaccess">
https://github.com/perma-id/w3id.org/blob/master/mdo/.htaccess</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><code><span style="font-size:10.0pt">I haven't used this myself, as I'd like to have more robust
</span></code><span class="qt-pl-c">http content negotiation ("conneg</span>") for my stuff, but what I'm developing for that isn't near done yet or deployed in the field, though it will be open source and self-hostable, and based on ARKs (<a href="https://arks.org/">https://arks.org/</a>),
which I think are a nice way to *generate* persistent URLs decoupled from actually *resolving* them (though one needs to find such a so-called ARK "name mapping authority" to provide that service if one cannot self-host, and I'm not aware of any NMAs other
than n2t.net , which I don't think you can just use unless you are a collaborator in some sense).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">w3id.org of course also requires you to resolve stuff, but the above examples host on github pages and that seems to work quite well.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">How do people generate persistent URLs for your schemas and other reference docs?<o:p></o:p></p>
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