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Long-term access to objects and items of interest to researchers, scholars, collectors, and others, is notoriously difficult to ensure. People and things move and links rot.
Persistent linking systems are available, but expensive.
And, they those systems impose their own metadata and other requirements, instead of letting users supply their own.
Solution
ARKs exist to provide long-term access to information objects.
ARKs are affordable: there are no fees to assign or use ARKs. And, you can host ARKs on your own web server , because for example, with help from the Noid (Nice Opaque Identifiers) is open open source software.
ARKs are flexible: In some ways, ARKs can be thought of as a “one-size-fits-all,” in that they perfectly fit simple as well as complex use cases.
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- Publish the ARK specification through the Informational RFC process
- Number of subscribers to ARK mailing list
- Process for assigning majority of ARK NAANs is automated
- Number of code contributors to N2T’s Eggnog (successor to Noid) code baseand other tools
- Number of ARK integration projects for library and repository systems in GitHub
- Number of N2T clients in GitHub
- Number of N2T replicas maintained around the world
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- Technical Leads/Managers
- Programmers/Developers
- Digital Preservation Experts
- Metadata Experts
- Genealogists
- Digital Librarians
Contributor Channels
- *Expressions of Interest*
- Users
- Event networking
- Advisory Group
- Regular communication (outreach)
- Referrals
- EZID promotion
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