Archival Resource Keys (ARKs) serve as persistent identifiers, or stable, trusted references for information objects. Among other things, they aim to be web addresses (URLs) that don’t return 404 Page Not Found errors. The ARK Alliance is an open global community supporting the ARK infrastructure on behalf of research and scholarship.
End users, especially researchers, rely on ARKs for long term access to the global scientific and cultural record. Since 2001 some 15.3 billion ARKs have been created by over 1700 organizations — libraries, data centers, archives, museums, publishers, government agencies, and vendors.
ARKs are open, mainstream, non-paywalled, decentralized persistent identifiers that you can start creating in under 48 hours. They identify anything digital, physical, or abstract.
ARKs are similar to DOIs, URNs, and Handles. All of them
In contrast, ARKs are cheaper, more flexible, and less centralized, letting you
To get started creating ARKs, please fill out this request form for your organization. If you wish to get involved in the ARK Alliance, consider joining one of its working groups.
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