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Supporting Archival Resource Keys (ARKs) as open, non-paywalled persistent identifiers for the scientific and cultural record. Also on mastodon: @arks_org@fosstodon.org.

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Wrapping up 2025 with 1720 ARK organizations In 2025, the ARK Alliance achieved significant milestones, surpassing 1720 registered ARK organizations.

2025 has been a great year for the ARK Alliance. The 1720+ ARK organizations include 12 national libraries, 215 universities, 254 archives, 144 museums, 124 journals, and 59 scientific centers.
arks.org/news/2025-12...

17.12.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Invest in Open Infrastructure supports LA Referencia and the dARK initiative Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) announced in November 2025 that LA Referencia will receive up to US$1.5M in funding as one of the inaugural winners of the IOI Network Adoption Fund.

Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) announced in November 2025 that LA Referencia will receive up to US$1.5M in funding as one of the inaugural winners of the IOI Network Adoption Fund. arks.org/news/2025-12...

17.12.2025 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: ARK Alliance Community Call. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: ARK Alliance Community Call. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

The first Archival Resource Key (ARK) Community call will take place Friday 14 November 2025 at 0800 PST / 1100 EST / 1600 UTC. Everyone is welcome to join this 1-hour meeting. Register here: unt.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

05.11.2025 02:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
ARK Alliance ARK Alliance: Global community for open, decentralized ARK identifiers supporting research and scholarship. 8.2 billion ARKs created by 1600+ orgs.

The ARK Alliance (arks.org) will convert its documentation practices to align with modern form ARKs, the most visible difference being removal of the slash ('/') at the end of "ark:/", a non-breaking change -- two ARKs that differ only in form are equivalent in perpetuity. arks.org/news/2025-07...

29.07.2025 17:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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LD4 2025 Conference: ARK persistent identifiers: affordable l... View more about this event at LD4 2025 Conference

Come learn about @arks-org.bsky.social ARK persistent identifiers Monday 28 July 13:30 - 14:30 ET (tomorrow)! It's part of the all virtual LD4 (Linked Data for libraries and archives) conference, and it's free to attend as long as you register. sched.co/26eO7

28.07.2025 04:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Access to open data at the National Library of France using ARK variants An early adopter of ARKs, the BnF has developed practices for displaying persistent linked open data (LOD) using ARK suffixes for object variants.

Using ARK identifiers to simplify access to open data at the National Library of France arks.org/news/2025-07...

24.07.2025 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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