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Implementations can consist mostly of off-the-shelf technologies.
ARKs pioneered persistence statements that can reflect variations in persistence policy, including a limited lifespan.
Open infrastructure: unlike other persistent identifiers, ARKs don't lock you into one specific, often fee-based, management and resolution infrastructure.
ARK syntax uniquely supports relationship analyses of groups of ARKs, as might be conducted over search results to make collapsing or expanding them fast and powerful.
“Inflections”: special characters (?, ??) at end of an ARK string will bring back an ARK’s metadata. This means you don’t need a programmer’s help.
“Suffix passthrough”: a special technique that allows you to register one ARK to have usable persistent links to thousands of your objects. This means a huge savings in time and attention for you!
*The development of this statement was based on materials and instruction for the Open Canvas exercise published by the Mozilla Foundation: http://bit.ly/2ES416M