Community update 2024-11-07: 1400 ARK organizations

Percent of ARK organizations per top-level domain. #WDPD2024

Today being World Digital Preservation Day, we are delighted to announce that the number of ARK organizations has surpassed 1400. That number includes

10 national libraries
185 universities
209 archives
104 museums
101 journals

In the past year we have been busy converting both the ARK Alliance website (originally under WordPress) and working group wiki (originally under Confluence) to GitHub-based hosting. Meanwhile,

224 new ARK organizations were registered,
8 ARK tutorials of varying length were given at conferences such as Open Repositories, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, Latindex, Linked Open Data, and the Western Association of Map Libraries,
a 30-minute ARK tutorial video was made available, and
a new Spanish and Portuguese discussion forum was created.

We are also excited to share a promising new open source software package for organizations implementing ARKs. Starting with the Internet Archive’s arklet implementation, developers at The Frick Collection have created the arklet-Frick tool. It adds improved security and bugfixes, as well as bulk operations, suffix passthrough, shoulder rules, extensive metadata, endpoints for ?info and ?json, and more. See the about pages for more information on these concepts.

As always we welcome volunteers for our working groups: Outreach, Technical, and NAAN Curation. If you wish to volunteer, please express your interest by filling out this form.

Community update 2024-11-07: 1400 ARK organizations

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