Future Directions
PURLz 2.0, currently Beta testing, makes major changes to the PURL concept and implementation. Most notably in terms of implementation, the software runs on a Semantic Web framework with information stored in an RDF database. The implementation team intends for the software to provide all the functions of a Web server, excluding the serving of content. Active PURLs, which act similar to a stored procedure in relational databases, are being experimented with to allow a PURL server to actively participate in the creation of metadata describing a Web resource.
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“The Mind in Infancy is, methinks, like the Body in Embrio, and receives Impressions so forcible, that they are as hard to be removed by Reason, as any Mark with which a Child is born is to be taken away by any future Application.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)
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