appears_in: []
banana: ark
contact:
  email: jakkbl@gmail.com
  github: jkunze
  name: John Kunze
  orcid: 0000-0001-7604-8041
contributor_extras:
- email: jakkbl@gmail.com
  github: jkunze
  name: John Kunze
  orcid: 0000-0001-7604-8041
- email: cthoyt@gmail.com
  github: cthoyt
  name: Charles Tapley Hoyt
  orcid: 0000-0003-4423-4370
- email: sumirp77@gmail.com
  github: sumirp
  name: Sumir H Pandit
  orcid: 0000-0002-1216-4761
depends_on: []
deprecated: false
description: 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 8.2 billion ARKs have
  been created by over 1000 organizations — libraries, data centers, archives, museums,
  publishers, government agencies, and vendors. They identify anything digital, physical,
  or abstract. ARKs are open, mainstream, non-paywalled, decentralized persistent
  identifiers that can be created by an organization as soon as it is registered with
  a NAAN (Name Assigning Authority Number). Once registered, an ARK organization can
  create unlimited numbers of ARKs and publicize them via the n2t.net global resolver
  or via their own local resolver.
example: /53355/cl010066723
example_extras: []
homepage: https://arks.org
keywords:
- data retrieval
- subject agnostic
logo: https://api.fairsharing.org/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBaThDIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--c69281eac0647c6b7a664f0932bee0d5fd27781d/gold_boat_arka.png?disposition=inline
mappings:
  bartoc: '20715'
  biocontext: ARK
  fairsharing: FAIRsharing.f928f1
  miriam: ark
  n2t: ark
  wikidata.entity: Q2860403
mastodon: arks_org@fosstodon.org
name: Archival Resource Key
namespace_in_lui: true
pattern: ^/*[0-9A-Za-z]+(?:/[\w/.=*+@\$-]*)?(?:\?.*)?$
preferred_prefix: ark
prefix: ark
providers: []
publications: []
references:
- https://n2t.net/e/about.html
- https://github.com/biopragmatics/bioregistry/pull/1141
repository: https://github.com/arks-org
synonyms: []
uri_format: http://n2t.net/ark:$1
