adding ARK to list of ORCID identifier types?

[John Kunze]

Hi,

New to this group, I was encouraged to post a request for ARKs to be added to the list of identifier types recognized by ORCID.

Some background. There are over 550 organizations registered to use ARKs, and new requests come in at about 2 per month. Major adopters of ARKs include

• California Digital Library (~ 6 million)
• Internet Archive (~ 12 million)
• National Library of France (~ 20 million)
• Portico (~ 100 million interesting ARKs, billions of less interesting ARKs)
• FamilySearch (unknown, but many genealogical artifacts have been seen to have ARKs)
• SNAC (~ 4 million)

It is a feature of ARKs is that there's no centralized maintenance authority, but that makes it difficult to count how many there are in the world. 

There will be a one-day ARK Summit hosted by the National Library of France on 21 March 2018, at which a proposal will be made to keep running totals of ARKs at participating sites.

It is also a feature of ARKs that no centralized resolver is required, but if one is desired, N2T.net is the closest there is to a global ARK resolver.

Finally, the crowdsourced metadata vocabulary building service, yamz.net, which mints ARKs for vocabulary terms, is currently integrating ORCID login credentials so that ORCIDs can appear next to dictionary contributions.

[Peters, Robert]

Hi John,
We would be excited to add it. Expect to see the option live on ORCID in the next week or two.

Cheers,
Rob

Robert Peters

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[John Kunze]

Great to that, Rob. Thanks!

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