California Digital Library (CDL) and DuraSpace formed a collaboration aimed at validating the viability of building an open, international community around the Archival Resource Key (ARK) persistent identifier.
Over 500 institutions (research, not-for-profit, private, government) across the world have registered to use ARKs. They’ve created an estimated 175 million ARKs with publicly resolvable links to objects (digital, physical, people, places, etc.).
Since 2001, CDL has served as the incubator for ARK infrastructure, consisting primarily of the specification, a name assigning registry, and a global resolver service. Now, to achieve long-term sustainability, the ARK infrastructure must emerge from CDL and mature in partnership with multiple organizations and community participants to guide its future.
If you’d like to be involved in these initiatives or ask a question, please contact Erin Tripp at etripp@duraspace.org or Joan Starr at Joan.Starr@ucop.edu.
