Resource-Oriented Environment Powers Critical Web
Infrastructure
July 27, 2009, Bristol, UK, - 1060(R) Research, Ltd. is pleased
to announce that a new generation of the Persistent URL (PURL)
service has gone live powered by the NetKernel(tm) Resource
Oriented Computing(tm) platform. The Open Source development effort
that created the new version was sponsored by the Online Computer
Library Center (OCLC) as an upgrade to the existing PURL service,
which it built and has hosted for over 12 years.
The PURL service provides persistent, stable World Wide Web
(WWW) addresses for the international library and education
community, government, business, non-profit organizations, and
private citizens. PURLs are Web addresses or Uniform Resource
Locators (URLs) that act as permanent identifiers in the face of a
dynamic and changing Web infrastructure.
The new service will add features and make it more scalable to
face an expected increase in demand over the next few years. In
addition to making it easier to create and maintain persistent
URIs, it will now support URI redirection for information and
non-information resources such as concepts, organizations and
people. This will be a key enabler of Semantic Web-based
applications. The new service will allow URI-based concepts to be
stable and resolved using existing protocols.
NetKernel is a resource-oriented computing environment that
builds upon the architectural properties of Unix pipes,
Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and the Representational State
Transfer (REST) style of information, service and document
processing. NetKernel's architecture makes it dramatically easier
and less expensive to develop flexible, scalable and fast
software.
"We are pleased that the NetKernel PURL project is complete and
that the PURL service is now running on a resource oriented
computing platform." says Peter Rodgers, CEO of 1060 Research, Ltd,
the developers of NetKernel.
More information on NetKernel is available from the 1060
Research web site: www.1060research.com/netkernel/.
More information on the PURL service is available on the OCLC PURL
Web site: www.purl.org.
About 1060 Research, Limited
Founded in 2002 with technology seeding from Hewlett-Packard
Labs, 1060 Research, Ltd. is an industry leading innovator of
software infrastructure and the leading voice in Resource-Oriented
Computing.
For more information, visit: www.1060research.com
Contacts
Randolph Kahle
Director of Marketing
1060 Research, Ltd
rsk@1060research.com
+1 520 971 2962
