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ARK (Archival Resource Key) identifie= rs are widely used for objects and abstractions related to scientific and s= cholarly heritage. ARKs were developed at the US National Library of Medici= ne and the California Digital Library (CDL) especially, but = not exclusively, for the library, archive and museum community. Their built= -in flexibility and ease-of-use has proven popular with researchers and sch= olars across all academic disciplines, as well as government, commercial an= d nonprofit sectors. Indeed, over 600 institutions across the world have re= gistered to use ARKs, with usage conservatively estimated to number 3.2 bil= lion assigned ARK identifiers.
CDL and DuraSpace/LYRASIS launched th= is pilot project as a first step toward ensuring the ongoing health and dev= elopment of the ARK infrastructure. By =E2=80=9CARK infrastructure,=E2=80= =9D we mean open source software tools and systems, the ARK specification, = and production-grade replicated resolver services for N2T.net (Name-to-Thing,= a generic resolver for over 700 identifier types and also the global ARK r= esolver). ARKs represent the only mainstream persiste= nt identifier scheme that is truly open, decentralized, non-siloed, and non= -paywalled. Community ownership of this infrastructure h= as been under discussion since 2007, and the project made a start by establ= ishing an active ARK community group with the aims of
Maintaining two key assets= : the ARK specification and the NAAN registry, and
Submitting the current ARK= specification to the IETF as in Internet Informational RFC.
CDL is a committed member of the ARK = community and invites anyone with an interest in promoting long-term access= to information objects to join us.
We envision an active and involved global community that sustains ARK id= entifiers as part of the open scholarly and research infrastructure.
Creating and maintaining an open source library of ARK integrations = with external systems