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Downloads

• pdf The-Covenant-of-the-ARK-en Modified: 2023-11-07
• pdf ark-18-arksorg Modified: 2023-11-07
• pdf ARK-Training-Tutorial-IIIF-2023-slides Modified: 2023-11-07
• pdf ARK-intro-for-GLAMs-2023-slides-15-mins-version Modified: 2023-11-07
• pdf ark_spec_39 Modified: 2024-06-21

News Items

• ARK documentation changing to show modern ARKs (ark:) by default instead of classic ARKs (ark:/) Posted: 2025-07-28 by The ARK Alliance
• Access to open data at the National Library of France using ARK variants Posted: 2025-07-23 by Xavier Levoin, John Kunze
• Arklet-frick: bringing ARKs from need to implementation at the Frick Collection Posted: 2024-11-10 by Jack O'Malley
• Community update 2024-11-07: 1400 ARK organizations Posted: 2024-11-06 by The ARK Alliance
• ARK Community Highlight: West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN) Posted: 2024-11-04 by Omo Oaiya, Sefakor Ankora, Elizabeth Yayra Tordzro, Donald Doe Seanedzu, and Keziah Okyere
• Wrapping up 2023 with 1200 ARK organizations Posted: 2023-12-18 by The ARK Alliance
• Community update 2023-06-13: stickers, tutorials, code of conduct Posted: 2023-06-13 by The ARK Alliance
• Help us to make cultural heritage data more persistent Posted: 2023-05-31 by Hugo Manguinhas, Valentine Charles
• ARKs added to new version of the PID Guide Posted: 2023-05-31 by Remco van Veenendaal
• Wrapping up 2022 with over 1000 ARK organizations Posted: 2022-12-13 by The ARK Alliance
• Images and the promise of ARKs with IIIF Posted: 2022-11-23 by Julien A. Raemy, John Jung, and John Kunze
• New “ARKs-Service” from the University of Toronto Scarborough Library Posted: 2022-11-17 by Kirsta Stapelfeldt
• Upcoming changes to the ARK specification Posted: 2022-03-18 by The ARK Alliance
• Community update 2022-02-22 Posted: 2022-02-21 by Aurélien Conraux
• ARK Alliance 2021 wrap up Posted: 2021-12-15 by The ARK Alliance
• The Frick Collection to use ARKs Posted: 2021-12-08 by Luciano Johnson
• ARKs at iPRES 2021 Posted: 2021-11-02 by The ARK Alliance
• The ARK origin story Posted: 2021-11-01 by The ARK Alliance
• Community update 2021-10-05 Posted: 2021-10-05 by The ARK Alliance
• Community update 2021-04-26 Posted: 2021-04-25 by The ARK Alliance
• Announcing an ARK plugin for Open Journal Systems (OJS) Posted: 2021-04-21 by Yasiel Pérez
• The Louvre collection goes online with 483,000 ARKs Posted: 2021-03-26 by The ARK Alliance
• Announcing the ARK Alliance Posted: 2021-01-26 by The ARK Alliance
• ARKs at PIDapalooza Posted: 2021-01-25 by The ARK Alliance
• Community update 2021-01-26 Posted: 2021-01-25 by The ARK Alliance
• New service: ARKetype Posted: 2021-01-20 by Julien A. Raemy
• Ten persistent myths about persistent identifiers Posted: 2021-01-19 by John Kunze
• ‘Internet of Samples’ to use ARKs and IGSNs with physical objects Posted: 2021-01-04 by The ARK Alliance