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...

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...

Free Persistent Identifiers Arrive for Open-Access Journals in New

Persistent 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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Still time to sign up (till Aug 27) for the ARK workshop at the #SPNHC Conference in Cape Town Sept 11! ARK (Archival Resource Key) persistent identifiers #PIDs are citable, flexible, non-paywalled permalinks used by museums, libraries, and research institutions worldwide. Register: bit.ly/4zsM7zo

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.

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]

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...

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

LD4 2025 Conference: ARK persistent identifiers: affordable l...

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

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.

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