PURL Search Form

The search input fields are used as follows:

• PURL: this input will be used to match the name part of PURLs on this resolver. For example, in the fictitious PURL http://purl.org/hello/there, "/hello/there" is the name part. Since the prefix http://bibpurl.oclc.org is implicit in each PURL on this resolver and is outside the name part, it should not be entered in the PURL field.
• URL: this input will be used to match any part of any URL associated with a PURL on this resolver. All parts of the URL are significant and can be entered to help limit the search.
• Maintainer: this input will be used to search for a registered user ID or group ID that is a PURL maintainer on this resolver and exactly matches this string. Since a PURL's maintainers access control list can include group IDs, matches against this input field are determined by recursively expanding any such group IDs into a list of their members' IDs and then matching against all IDs in the fully expanded list. For example, if BOB is a member of the group TALL and TALL is the sole maintainer of the PURL duck-when-entering, then BOB will match as a maintainer of duck-when-entering. Thus, entering BOB in the Maintainer field would match the PURL duck-when-entering. Large group expansions can take a long time to compute!
• Explicit Maintainer: this input will be used to search for a registered user ID or group ID that is an explicitly named PURL maintainer on this resolver and exactly matches this string. This match is NOT done recursively like that done for the Maintainer field above. Instead, the input will only match an ID that appears explicitly in the maintainers access control list of a PURL. Using the example above, entering BOB in the Explicit Maintainer field would NOT match the PURL duck-when-entering.
• Nonempty fields are "ANDed" together.
• Empty fields are not used in the search.

Automatic "ANDing" Search terms in more than one box are automatically "ANDed" together. Example: "Yahoo" in the URL box and "Bob" in the Maintainer box only retrieve records that contain both terms.

PURL                 
URL                  case sensitive
Maintainer           expands groups
Explicit Maintainer  does not expand groups