With a record 187 new institutions registered in 2021 (up from 113 in 2020), it has been another banner year for the ARK community. The Louvre museum and Frick Collection joined, a new ARK plugin for OJS was announced, and the ARK origin story went online. We are also delighted, as of yesterday, to now be a member of the NDSA, a consortium of 264 partnering organizations committed to the long-term preservation of digital information.

The ARK Alliance community comprises institutions and people who use ARK identifiers as well as those interested in promoting and sustaining the open ARK standards, best practices, and global N2T.net resolver.

We have active working groups for outreach, technical specs, and registering new institutions that want to create ARKs. Two new curators stepped forward this year to help manage the registry and we are always open to wider participation. Please let us know if you would like to become involved in our working groups!

Here is the December 2021 ARKs snapshot:

• Organizations registered to assign ARKs: 877
• Known number of ARKs in the world: 8.2 billion
• Amount paid for the right to create ARKs: $0
• Average resolutions per day by N2T.net in 2021: 152,350

We will close with a list of the 187 institutions that were newly registered in 2021 to assign ARKs, in the order that they arrived.

Happy New Year!

• Niagara Falls Public Library
• Musée national d’histoire et d’art Luxembourg
• Real Sociedad Bascongada de los Amigos del País
• Banque de France
• Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History
• Département des Hautes-Alpes
• Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Nantes Métropole
• Universidad Nacional Experimental de los Llanos Centrales Rómulo
• Sistema bibliotecario dell’Università di Verona
• National Library of Mexico
• Revista Científico Hombre Ciencia y Tecnología
• California Historical Society
• State Library Victoria
• Software Systems Lab
• Brill
• Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
• Musée de Préhistoire d’Île-de-France
• Institut national de la propriété industrielle
• Musée Stéphane Mallarmé
• Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
• Silfersysten, Revista Sientifikha
• New York School of Interior Design
• Observatorio de la Deuda Social Argentina (ODSA) de la Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA)
• Acta Académica
• Atelier de la langue française
• Epicure 3.0
• Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos
• Kingston Public Library Local History Collections
• Real Biblioteca
• Archives de l’AP-HP
• Prince of Peace Abbey Library
• DrEdGE: Differential Expression Gene Explorer
• Numista
• Hampden Sydney College Archives & Special Collections
• EvidenceB
• IJCERT Publication House
• Nomad Education
• aleph99
• Archives municipales d’Alès
• Innovación y Software
• Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
• Revista Científica de la Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacia, USAC
• University of Northampton
• Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto
• Revista Innovación Estética
• Plume
• National Journal of Environment and Scientific Research
• Conservatoire et jardin botaniques de la ville de Genève
• University of Southern Denmark
• Association québécoise des marionnettistes
• Les Musées d’Orléans
• Universidad del Valle de Puebla
• Chantier scientifique de Notre-Dame de Paris
• Poltekkes Kemenkes Kendari
• Università degli Studi di Torino
• ƱpnFʊnR
• Artips
• Archives de l’Etat de Fribourg
• Revista Odontología Vital
• Archives de Nantes
• calcul@TICE, Académie de Lille
• Quintú Quimün. Revista de lingüística
• VOD Factory
• Didasc@lia: didáctica y educación
• Boletín Científico Tecnológico
• Archives de Châtenay-Malabry
• Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust
• Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad de Buenos Aires
• SchoolMouv
• Wooclap
• Centro de Documentación Regional Juan Bautista Vázquez
• Direzione Generale Archivi
• University of Wisconsin, Madison, Law School
• GIP mission de préfiguration Musée-mémorial du terrorisme
• George Mason University Libraries
• Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH – UFZ
• Archives Rochefortocean
• The Open Academic Research Association
• Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Troyes
• Studytracks Global
• Polyneme LLC
• Abridged Pause Archiving
• Réseau des Médiathèques du Lunévillois.
• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
• Dartmouth College Research, Teaching and Learning
• Revista Hormigón
• Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy
• Ibom Medical Journal
• Société des amis du Vieux Saint-Antonin
• International Association of Research Scholars
• CEUS
• National Microbiome Data Collaborative
• Atlantide Studio
• delving
• Al-Mukhtar Journal of Sciences
• Letterenhuis
• Museum Plantin-Moretus
• Rubenianum
• Streekarchief Midden-Holland
• Gouda Tijdmachine
• Revista Conflicto Social
• ModeMuseum Antwerpen
• Cinémathèque suisse
• Stad Antwerpen
• Services You
• Tralalere
• Hennessy
• Ediciones nuestrAmérica
• Association Espace Gérard Andreck
• DHARMA Project
• Cuadernos de descolonización y liberación
• Revista nuestrAmérica
• nuestrAmérica Journal of Social Research
• Fais ton Film
• Erfgoed Brabant
• Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
• Portal Latinoamericano de Revistas Científicas
• ZHB Luzern
• rdxx group
• The Frick Collection
• Archives de la ville de Differdange
• Learn&Go
• Polymnia
• Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme
• Inschool SAS
• Archives du Lot et Garonne
• JConsort
• NADAR! SWIMMING MAGAZINE
• Bibliothèque de Sorbonne Université
• Archives de Dax
• Collections de Touraine
• Archives des Sables d’Olonne
• Service communautaire d’archives Pau Béarn Pyrénées
• Lalilo
• Revista Mundo Financiero
• eSquirrel GmbH
• Archives communales de Mérignac
• ICONCLASS
• Scientia Generalis
• Partenaire du savoir
• Musée national Magnin
• University of Canterbury Library
• Journal of Innovative Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences
• Revista Jurídica de la Universidad de San Andrés
• Practeex
• DiasporA Tamil Archives
• Service de Coopération Documentaire Interuniversitaire de Montpellier
• Middelheimmuseum
• Museum Mayer van den Bergh
• Museum aan de Stroom
• Red Star Line Museum
• Museum Vleeshuis
• CYRANO MEDIA
• VMind
• Instituto de Antropología de Córdoba
• KohaAloha library
• Aramis Lab
• Folkrörelsearkivet för Uppsala län
• ESPES. The Slovak Journal of Aesthetics
• ORIENTEST
• 9 HEURES PRÉCISES SAS
• Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie de Troyes
• Musée national des arts asiatiques – Guimet
• Direction de la bibliothèque et des archives du Conseil d’Etat
• Médiathèque Eugène Corbin
• Médiathèque Jean Rouppert
• Ludo-médiathèque Frouard

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