Resource-Oriented Environment a Good Match for URI
Infrastructure
August 2, 2007, Bristol, UK, - Zepheira, LLC. and 1060(R)
Research, Ltd. are pleased to announce the selection of 1060(R)
NetKernel as the key enabling technology for an updated Persistent
URL (PURL) service. The Open Source development effort is being
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.
"When looking for an infrastructure to use as the basis of the
PURL rearchitecture work, we needed to balance features, track
record, ease of development and flexibility in supporting new
capabilities. We have had great success for our customers with
NetKernel in the enterprise. With its focus on scalable
resource-oriented computing, it was a natural candidate for this
work," says Eric Miller, Zepheira's President.
David Wood, a Zepheira partner and software maintenance
researcher adds, "Software designed to run as Internet
infrastructure for many years needs to be maintainable as well as
scalable; simply being Open Source is not enough. NetKernel
succeeds on all fronts with its modular, layered approach and
efficient microkernel architecture. The fact that it has the polish
of a commercial product made the decision to leverage this toolkit
an easy one to make."
"We are pleased that 1060 NetKernel was selected as the
foundation for the rearchitected PURL service," says Peter Rodgers,
PhD, CEO of 1060 Research. Rodgers continues, "NetKernel uses URIs
internally to identify all elements of software including
resources, services and code so it seems natural that NetKernel
will now support a global URI resolution service. We have seen
NetKernel used in a wide range of enterprise applications, so we
know that Zepheria and OCLC will have the scalability, flexibility,
and productivity they need to build a high-performance, easily
managed system. We are pleased to support such an important
open-source project."
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 Zepheira
Zepheira is a US-based professional services firm with expertise
in semantic technologies and Enterprise Data Integration. Zepheira
delivers solutions worldwide to integrate, navigate and manage data
across personal, group and enterprise boundaries. Zepheira performs
business analysis, data architecture, application development and
implementation. Zepheira's experts have a long history of leading
Internet standards initiatives, and delivering solutions to
industries including manufacturing, financial services, medical
research and defense. The company is privately held and has offices
in Virginia, Ohio and Colorado.
For more information, visit: www.zepheira.com
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
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Partner
Zepheira
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1060 Research, Ltd
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