7 November 2024

Getting started with ARK persistent identifiers

7 November 2024 16:00 GMT

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Abstract

This webinar introduces ARK (Archival Resource Key) persistent identifiers. As non-paywalled PIDs (persistent identifiers, permalinks) for information objects of any kind, ARKs support durable web addresses (e.g., that don’t return 404 Page Not Found). Since 2001, 8.2 billion ARKs have been created by over 1400 organizations — libraries, data centers, publishers, archives, museums, and government agencies. With highly flexible metadata, citation-friendly ARKs are linked-data-ready and identify anything digital, physical, or abstract. In 2018, multiple organizations partnered to form the ARK Alliance in order to sustain the ARK infrastructure and guide its future.

Speakers

John Kunze, Computer scientist - ARK Alliance & Drexel University Metadata Research Center.

John Kunze is a pioneer in the theory and practice of digital libraries. With a background in computer science and mathematics, he wrote BSD Unix tools that come pre-installed with Mac and Linux systems. He created the ARK identifier scheme (arks.org), the N2T.net scheme-agnostic resolver, and contributed heavily to the first standards for URLs (RFC1736, RFC1625, RFC2056), library search and retrieval (Z39.50), archival transfer (BagIt - RFC8493), web archiving (WARC), and metadata (Dublin Core - RFC2413, RFC2731, ANSI/NISO Z39.85).