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Activity overview
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A secure, persistent and privacy preserving link shortener for research and education Link shorteners reduce a lengthy URL on the internet to something short and snappy, and sometimes easy to remember. As such it is a very well used and liked functionality within our community. Many ‘free’ link shorteners exist, however, their free nature comes with a number of challenges, including:
Next to these practices, some more general challenges exist with link shorteners, which are especially challenging for our sector:
Taking into account the above considerations, SURF developed a new service called “edu.nl”. Grown out of a ‘Friday afternoon’ project, the edu.nl link shortener service was launched in The Netherlands in Oct 2019 to see its popular rise sharply in the two first months after it was moved from being a SURF staff only service to become a broadly available community service. The software supporting edu.nl will be made available to the GÉANT community by SURF for the purpose of this project. This incubator project seeks to enhance the capabilities of the existing edu.nl codebase and make them ready for purpose to deliver a service that could be operated for the benefit of the GÉANT community as a whole, branded as the eduLNK service. Assuming the eduLNK service would offer a free to use service for end users in our community to resolve and mitigate some of the aforementioned issues:
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Activity Details
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The features below are currently not yet supported in the software developed by SURF.
For institutions in the GÉANT community, eduLNK offers additional capabilities:
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This activity is completed is the following goals are met: Enhancing the software:
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Te software developed as part of this activity will be made available under an open source licence. This activity will investigate if eduLNK may be offered as a GEANT service. #How are the results of the Activity intended to be used? If this requires further engagement, can you describe how you intent to sustain it? - delete this line after using the template# <Enter here> |
Activity Results
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A prototype of the eduLNK software was created and a public test instance was made available. The following results were created by this activity:
With the submission of the official new idea form, eduLNK may become a potential new service in the GÉANT project. #Please provide pointers to completed and intermediary results of this activity - delete this line after using the template# |
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