ARK Alliance

Home of the Archival Resource Key (ARK)

Community update 2021-01-26

  • Organizations registered to assign ARKs: 701.
  • Known number of ARKs in the world: 8.2 billion.
  • Amount paid for the right to create ARKs: $0.
  • Number of ARKs stored in the N2T.net resolver: 50,070,992.
  • Resolution requests received in 2020 by N2T.net: 41,619,762.

A selection of the 286 organizations registered to assign ARKs since 2018:

  • Musée du Louvre
  • Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
  • LBNL ETA Building Tech and Urban Systems
  • The National Gallery, London
  • Dartmouth Spatial Archaeometry Lab
  • Punctum Books
  • Archives de Rennes
  • Bibliothèque Mazarine
  • Château de Versailles
  • Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
  • NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • Tchê Química
  • Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
  • Fondation Le Corbusier
  • Library of the University of Amsterdam
  • Africa Development and Resources Research Institute
  • Accademia dei Georgofili
  • Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan