In 2018 the California Digital Library (CDL) and DuraSpace (now LYRASIS) announced a collaboration aimed at building an open, international community around Archival Resource Keys (ARKs) and their use as persistent identifiers in the open scholarly ecosystem.
On 26 January 2021, that community that matured from that collaboration was renamed, ARK Alliance (arks.org), where the public face of the work of the ARKs-in-the-Open project continues. Please visit arks.org for information on ARKs – users, community, software, best practices, etc.
What remains on this project website is mostly wiki support for the ARK Alliance working groups.
Over 600 institutions (research, not-for-profit, private, government) across the world have registered to use ARKs. They’ve created an estimated 8.2 billion ARKs with publicly resolvable links to objects (digital, physical, people, places, etc).
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