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HDL |
PURLz |
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Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
Yes |
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unique within our PID system without the DNS name portion of the |
Yes; very flexible naming, including pseudo/paths |
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? |
Yes |
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works with VIVO, arXiv, OAIS (CUL), Voyager Catalog, and WorldCat etc. |
Yes |
does nothing in and of itself to not work with existing systems; |
Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
Yes |
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completely flexible |
Yes |
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Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
Yes |
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depends on the length |
depends on the length and/or layout |
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HDL |
PURLz |
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Don't know; limited to the practical capacity of the underlying database. |
Don't know – mention of 1996 tests resolving 50 resolutions/sec with a database of 500,000 PURLS in Long Introduction to PURLs |
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Yes |
Yes; PURLz is just a simple HTTP server using MySQL |
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Yes |
No - alpha stage |
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Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
Cloning an existing PURL and chaining a PURL |
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Yes; the resolvers can't be crawled without providing a dump |
Yes; the resolvers can't be crawled without providing a dump |
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Yes |
Yes |
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? |
not built in |
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Need to avoid unbounded generation of surrogate persistent identifiers |
? |
? |
? |
Depends on the Partial Redirect working – e.g., http://resolver.cornell.edu/netid/bdc34 |
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HDL |
PURLz |
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one-time $50 payment per named resolver (not mirrors) |
no |
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Can continue resolve IDs in absence of external organization |
Yes |
Yes |
HDL is Corporation of National Research Initiatives's Handle system.
PURLz is Zepheira's and OCLC's new persistent URL work.