[fair-data-stewardship] Persistent URL service for semantic-web docs?

[Christopher Erdmann]

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.

Depends on your needs, what makes the best sense. I found these articles which might help with making a decision:

Comparing ARKs, DOIs and other identifier systems – ARK Alliance<https://arks.org/about/comparing-arks-and-other-identifiers/>
Unique, Persistent, Resolvable: Identifiers as the Foundation of FAIR | Data Intelligence | MIT Press<https://direct.mit.edu/dint/article/2/1-2/30/9992/Unique-Persistent-Resolvable-Identifiers-as-the>
Persistent Identifiers: Considering the Options - Ariadne<http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/56/tonkin/>
The Code4Lib Journal – Persistent identifiers for heritage objects<https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/14978>

Hope this helps along with Donny’s messages 😊


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From: <fair-data-stewardship-bounces at mit.edu> on behalf of Donny Winston <donny at polyneme.xyz>
Date: Thursday, October 14, 2021 at 6:21 AM
To: "fair-data-stewardship at mit.edu" <fair-data-stewardship at mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [fair-data-stewardship] Persistent URL service for semantic-web docs?

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 https://n2t.net/ark:12025/path/to/thing would resolve to your github pages site or whatever (the above is registered on n2t.net to resolve to "http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ark:$id" with suffix passthrough, i.e. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/ark:/12025/path/to/thing , 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,

On Wed, Oct 13, 2021, at 9:48 AM, Donny Winston wrote:
I know a couple of groups that use https://w3id.org/ , which has a nice github-based maintenance workflow (https://github.com/perma-id/w3id.org#creating-a-new-identifier).

One example is the LinkML project:
example URL: https://w3id.org/linkml/SchemaDefinition
resolves to: https://linkml.io/linkml-model/docs/SchemaDefinition/
via .htaccess file registered in the w3id.org github repo: https://github.com/perma-id/w3id.org/blob/master/linkml/.htaccess

Another example is this Materials Design Ontology project:
example URL: https://w3id.org/mdo/full/
resolves to: https://huanyu-li.github.io/mdo/full/1.0/index.html
via .htaccess file at: https://github.com/perma-id/w3id.org/blob/master/mdo/.htaccess

I haven't used this myself, as I'd like to have more robust http content negotiation ("conneg")  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 (https://arks.org/), 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).

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.

Best,
Donny

On Tue, Oct 12, 2021, at 10:46 AM, Samuel Klein wrote:
I like the spirit of purl.org<http://purl.org>, but it doesn't seem widely used or maintained.
How do people generate persistent URLs for your schemas and other reference docs?

SJ
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