News and Announcements

Wrapping up 2025 with 1720 ARK organizations

2025-12-15
The ARK Alliance

Invest in Open Infrastructure supports LA Referencia and the dARK initiative

2025-12-11
Lautaro Matas, Katherine Skinner

ARK documentation changing to show modern ARKs (ark:) by default instead of classic ARKs (ark:/)

2025-07-28
The ARK Alliance

Access to open data at the National Library of France using ARK variants

2025-07-23
Xavier Levoin, John Kunze

Arklet-frick: bringing ARKs from need to implementation at the Frick Collection

2024-11-10
Jack O'Malley

Community update 2024-11-07: 1400 ARK organizations

2024-11-06
The ARK Alliance

ARK Community Highlight: West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN)

2024-11-04
Omo Oaiya, Sefakor Ankora, Elizabeth Yayra Tordzro, Donald Doe Seanedzu, and Keziah Okyere

Wrapping up 2023 with 1200 ARK organizations

2023-12-18
The ARK Alliance

Community update 2023-06-13: stickers, tutorials, code of conduct

2023-06-13
The ARK Alliance

Help us to make cultural heritage data more persistent

2023-05-31
Hugo Manguinhas, Valentine Charles

ARKs added to new version of the PID Guide

2023-05-31
Remco van Veenendaal

Wrapping up 2022 with over 1000 ARK organizations

2022-12-13
The ARK Alliance

Images and the promise of ARKs with IIIF

2022-11-23
Julien A. Raemy, John Jung, and John Kunze

New “ARKs-Service” from the University of Toronto Scarborough Library

2022-11-17
Kirsta Stapelfeldt

Upcoming changes to the ARK specification

2022-03-18
The ARK Alliance

Community update 2022-02-22

2022-02-21
Aurélien Conraux

ARK Alliance 2021 wrap up

2021-12-15
The ARK Alliance

The Frick Collection to use ARKs

2021-12-08
Luciano Johnson

ARKs at iPRES 2021

2021-11-02
The ARK Alliance

The ARK origin story

2021-11-01
The ARK Alliance

Community update 2021-10-05

2021-10-05
The ARK Alliance

Community update 2021-04-26

2021-04-25
The ARK Alliance

Announcing an ARK plugin for Open Journal Systems (OJS)

2021-04-21
Yasiel Pérez

The Louvre collection goes online with 483,000 ARKs

2021-03-26
The ARK Alliance

Announcing the ARK Alliance

2021-01-26
The ARK Alliance

ARKs at PIDapalooza

2021-01-25
The ARK Alliance

Community update 2021-01-26

2021-01-25
The ARK Alliance

New service: ARKetype

2021-01-20
Julien A. Raemy

Ten persistent myths about persistent identifiers

2021-01-19
John Kunze

‘Internet of Samples’ to use ARKs and IGSNs with physical objects

2021-01-04
The ARK Alliance