'This project is still undergoing planning and development'
'Use at your own risk!!!'
PyPurl is a simple implementation of the Persistent URL (PURL).
Presently, there’s two major implementations for PURLs: - Purlz and its successor, - Callimachus.
The problem with these implementations are:
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PURLz’s development has ceased.
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Callimachus’s goals are much larger than just PURLs. They are focused on developing a Linked Data platform.
While I can appreciate the goals of Callimachus, there’s a lot of additional capability that isn’t needed for a simple PURL provider. Examples such as: Semantic Web toolchain (Sesame), or a DocBook rendering engine, an XProc implementation.
The goal of this project is to provide a clean-cut, easy-to-use, and Open PURL web application built on Python technology.