ARK Alliance
ARK Alliance,
Jun 16, 2021
On Jisc today: "We are pleased to announce the formation of the ARK Alliance, an open global community supporting Archival Resource Keys (ARKs).... The ARK Alliance succeeds the ARKs-in-the-Open initiative, begun in 2018." ARKs are persistent identifiers for resources, but unlike (say) DOIs, you can "create unlimited identifiers without paying for the right to do so, add any kind of metadata, including no metadata, append extensions and query strings during resolution, link directly to an article, image, or spreadsheet that is immediately usable by people and software without making them first stop at a landing page." Obviously this is a step forward, however, in order to create an ARK you have to have a Name Assigning Authority Number (NAAN). I've requested a NAAN for downes.ca butI have the feeling they're restricted to more, um, prominent organizations.
Today: 6 Total: 84 [Direct link] [Share]
