some n2t.net calls being redirected to ezid.cdlib.org

[Dominik Wujastyk]

I routinely use n2t.net to resolve calls to items in archive.org.  But today I'm finding many of these calls don't work, and instead get sent to ezid.cdlib.org, where they fail.  

E.g.,

• https://n2t.net/ark:/13960/t75t8vp2v  

resolves to 

• https://ezid.cdlib.org/ark:/13960/t75t8vp2v

which gives the message

[Dave Vieglais]

Hi Dominik,

This issue should be resolved now. Please let us know if you continue to see issues with archive.org ARKs.

[Dominik Wujastyk]

Dear Dave, thank you for this!  Yes, some random tests seem to show that things are working properly again.

Many thanks!

Dominik

[Lavoisier Fonou]

Good morning all

My content published with this link "https://n2t.net/ark:/31129/JASAB.1.1.2025.7.8-16.x"  keep saying that "The requested URL was not found on this server, Apache Server at journalasab.com Port 443"

Please help me to solve this problem as soon as possible. 

Thank you.

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[Greg Janée]

Hello Lavoisier, the n2t.net URL is getting redirected to https://journalasab.com/ark:/31129/JASAB.1.1.2025.7.816.x and that server is then returning a 404.

Is the hyphen a problem? I'm not sure. Notice that the hyphen in your ARK is getting dropped. (In ARK identifiers, hyphens are not considered significant and may be removed.) However, when I try the following URL, with the hyphen manually added back in, the journal server still returns a 404:

https://journalasab.com/ark:/31129/JASAB.1.1.2025.7.8-16.x

So, while I'm not sure if the hyphen is an issue or not, there also appears to be an issue that the resource is not recognized.

-Greg

[John Kunze]

This new question is unrelated to the Subject line of this thread, which is confusing. 

I will try to create a new thread for it.

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[John Kunze]

Could someone with OJS experience please help advise Lavoisier on how to configure his OJS plugin so that he can update his NAAN record with the correct URL for his local resolver? I may be wrong, but think this is the main problem.

Separately, the ARK Alliance will have a look at what seems to be a change in the n2t resolver stack (that includes arks.org). It looks like it has begun to remove hyphens and to convert classic ARKs to modern ARKs, which I'm concerned may cause problems at local resolvers.

[Adam Buttrick]

Hello,

Unfortunately, don't have any experience with OJS, but for any issues with N2T or the ARK resolver, please do file a bug report in the ARKs N2T roadmap repository for us to triage and investigate:

https://github.com/CDLUC3/arks-n2t-roadmap/issues/new?template=bug_report.md

Thanks,
Adam

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California Digital Library
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[Ismael Cáceres-Correa]

 

Hello, Lavoisier and everyone in the community,

 

I am an editor, and I work with ARKs in the journals I edit or advise. As examples, here are three journals that use them:
https://revistanuestramerica.cl 
https://revistas.uniguajira.edu.co/rev/index.php/entre/
https://revistas.uniguajira.edu.co/rev/index.php/cei

 

What I notice in your case is that you are using dots “.” in the suffix, but the ARK module expects to find a slash “/”. The issue can usually be solved by avoiding dots when building the suffixes.

 

In fact, with OJS 3.3.0.20—which you are currently using—I can point to the example of the journal Revista nuestrAmérica (https://revistanuestramerica.cl). There, we confirmed that using dots in the ARK leads to errors in OJS.

 

Regarding the resolver, I have found it is much more effective to set up redirection rules that act directly on your site’s DOM and resolve to the appropriate path. For example, in an `.htaccess` file you could include a rule such as:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/ark:/31129/(.*)$
RewriteRule ^/index.php/pub/article/view/%1 [L,R=301]

 

I should also mention that I developed an OJS plugin that makes ARKs visible in the table of contents. It has been tested and works well with OJS 3.3.0.15 and 3.3.0.20.
Finally, I created a module for OJS 3.5.0.1 that supports ARKs, in case anyone finds it useful.

 

Best regards,

 

Ismael Cáceres-Correa

Editor

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