#DPClinic March - ARK Persistent Identifiers

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ARK persistent identifiers: affordable, inclusive linking infrastructure for long term cultural heritage

The average URL breaks in 100 days, which is a disaster for institutions that care about durable access to the scholarly and cultural record. Citations that fail undermine all our preservation efforts whatever media they link to. ARKs support web addresses that don't break (e.g., that don’t return 404 Page Not Found). They are decentralized, non-paywalled PIDs (persistent identifiers, permalinks) for information objects of any kind. ARKs are like DOIs used in traditional publishing. Both were introduced over 24 years ago, exist in large numbers (15.3 billion ARKs, 417 million DOIs), and support research and scholarship, appearing in the Data Citation Index, Wikipedia, ORCiD.org profiles, etc. But ARKs are cheaper, more flexible, and less centralized.

This session will provide information on what ARKs are, how they work, why to use them and the type of organisations using ARKs. It will provide an overview of the ARK structure and how to use the tools and services associated with ARKs to guarantee persistence. There will also be an opportunity for Q&A.

This #DPClinic session will be presented by John Kunze, senior research associate at Drexel University.

John Kunze is a pioneer in the theory and practice of digital libraries whose passion for creating and sharing free, open, pragmatic digital solutions has guided his long public sector career. John had leading roles in establishing identifier standards (URL, ARK), metadata standards (Dublin Core), archiving standards (BagIt, WARC), the Z39.50 library protocol, UC Berkeley’s first Campus Wide Information System, and repository microservices used in HathTrust and OCFL.

Who can use #DPClinic?

#DPClinic is available to everyone in the digital preservation community, DPC Members and non-members alike, provided all participants are respectful and supportive of one another and adhere to the DPC's Inclusion and Diversity Policy.

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