Documentation
- Towards Electronic Persistence Using ARK Identifiers, 2003-07, PDF
- ARK and CDL Identifier conventions
- Archival Resource Key wikipedia
- ARKsInTheOpen.org wiki used by ARK Alliance Working Groups
Selected presentations
- INCIPIT: An ARK Allocation Service in Switzerland, 2020-11-16, Julien Raemy. video (12 mins)
- ARKs in the Open: 3.2 billion Persistent Identifiers, 2020-04-23, John Kunze, Bess Missell, Karen Hanson, Tom Creighton. abstract | video (62 mins) | slides
- Integrating ArchivesSpace and ARKs, 2020-03-04, John Kunze, Seth Shaw, Christine di Bella. abstract | video (60 mins) | slides
- ARKs in the Open: community owned identifier infrastructure, 2020-01-24, John Kunze. slides
- ARK Identifier Summit, National Library of France, 2018-03-21, Sébastien Peyrard, John Kunze, Bertrand Caron, Nicolas Thouvenin, Roxana Maurer-Popistașu, Bruno Revellin, Delphine Jamet, Franck Bernardet, Adrien di Mascio, Guillaume Lory, Alexis Moisdon, Emmanuelle Bermès. abstract | collected videos (5 hours, in French 🇫🇷)
Technical specification
- The most recent stable ARK spec
- Where ARKs might be going: the latest “beta” ARK spec
Tools and services
- Noid (Nice Opaque Identifiers), open source Perl software for minting and resolving ARKs on your own
- EZID service: long term identifiers made easy, if you would rather not install and maintain a service yourself
- N2T.net resolver: Name-to-Thing, a global resolver for ARKs and other identifiers
Software plugins
A brief scan (May 2019) of open source software modules implementing ARK services turned up this set of packages, which we list below without endorsement.
- Python Noid, Python implementation of Noid
- Golang Noid, Golang/Docker implementation of Noid
- Ruby Noid, Ruby implementation of Noid
- PHP Noid, PHP implementation of Noid
- ARK plugin for Omeka, which creates and manages ARKs for the Omeka open source web-publishing platform
- ARK module for Drupal, which allows your Drupal site to act as a Name Mapping Authority