ARK Alliance

ARK Alliance

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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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The next ARK (Archival Resource Key) community call will take place Thursday, 12 November 2026 at 0800 PST / 1100 EST / 1700 CET. Everyone is welcome with registration: unt.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Draft agenda: github.com/arks-org/ark...

unt.zoom.usWelcome! 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.
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A new open-source project supports publishers using two alternative persistent identifier schemes, ARK and PURL, that carry no recurring registration costs. Developed by Yasiel Pérez Vera, it presents an ecosystem of interoperable Open Journal System (OJS) plugins. bioengineer.org/free-persist...

bioengineer.orgFree Persistent Identifiers Arrive for Open-Access Journals in NewPersistent identifiers have quietly become the plumbing of modern science. Every time a researcher cites a paper, links a dataset, or points a reader to a piece of software, some identifier system is
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The next ARK (Archival Resource Key) Community Call will take place on Thursday, 7 May 2026 at 0800 PDT / 1100 EDT / 1500 UTC. Zoom registration link: unt.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Everyone is welcome to join this 1-hour meeting on using ARK persistent identifiers (PIDs). Includes open discussion.

unt.zoom.usWelcome! 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.
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Optimized for an Australasian-friendly time on March 17, this ARK identifier presentation is actually equivalent to March _16_ at 17:00 in San Francisco and 20:00 in New York.

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How do we preserve access when the average URL breaks in just 100 days? Join us for next week's #DPClinic on 17 March to explore ARK persistent identifiers with John Kunze (Drexel University) and discover a more flexible and inclusive approach to persistent […] [Original post on digipres.club]

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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...

arks.orgInvest in Open Infrastructure supports LA Referencia and the dARK initiativeInvest 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.
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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...

unt.zoom.usWelcome! 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.
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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...

arks.orgARK AllianceARK Alliance: Global community for open, decentralized ARK identifiers supporting research and scholarship. 8.2 billion ARKs created by 1600+ orgs.

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