Persistent Uniform Resource Locator

• Name: Persistent Uniform Resource Locator
• Alternative Name: PURL
• Specification URI: http://www.purlz.org
• Scope: Web resource
• Disciplines: Subject Agnostic
• Keywords: identifier standard
• Description: A persistent uniform resource locator (PURL) is a uniform resource locator (URL) (i.e., location-based uniform resource identifier or URI) that is used to redirect to the location of the requested web resource.