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