Optimized for an Australasian-friendly time on March 17, this ARK identifier presentation is actually equivalent to March _16_ at 17:00 in San Francisco and 20:00 in New York.

2025 has been a great year for the ARK Alliance. The 1720+ ARK organizations include 12 national libraries, 215 universities, 254 archives, 144 museums, 124 journals, and 59 scientific centers. arks.org/news/2025-12...

Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) announced in November 2025 that LA Referencia will receive up to US$1.5M in funding as one of the inaugural winners of the IOI Network Adoption Fund. arks.org/news/2025-12...

The first Archival Resource Key (ARK) Community call will take place Friday 14 November 2025 at 0800 PST / 1100 EST / 1600 UTC. Everyone is welcome to join this 1-hour meeting. Register here: unt.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The ARK Alliance (arks.org) will convert its documentation practices to align with modern form ARKs, the most visible difference being removal of the slash ('/') at the end of "ark:/", a non-breaking change -- two ARKs that differ only in form are equivalent in perpetuity. arks.org/news/2025-07...

Come learn about @arks-org.bsky.social ARK persistent identifiers Monday 28 July 13:30 - 14:30 ET (tomorrow)! It's part of the all virtual LD4 (Linked Data for libraries and archives) conference, and it's free to attend as long as you register. sched.co/26eO7

Using ARK identifiers to simplify access to open data at the National Library of France arks.org/news/2025-07...