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Everything about Archival Resource Key
Form of URLs used as persistent identifiers
An Archival Resource Key (ARK) is a multi-purpose URL suited to being a persistent identifier for information objects of any type. It is widely used by libraries, data centers, archives, museums, publishers, and government agencies to provide reliable references to scholarly, scientific, and cultural objects. In 2019 it was registered as a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Archival Resource KeyA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Registered health information administrator (RHIA) exam preparationThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Persistent identifiers for archival materials of educational and research activities: using ARK (Archival Resource Key) in Kyoto University Digital Archive System (Peek)Cited 0 times
- Go sideways: Persistent identifierA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Handle SystemA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
📚 Books worth reading
Registered health information administrator (RHIA) exam preparationPatricia Shaw, Darcy Carter · 2010- 📕Revisualizing visual cultureChris Bailey · 2010
E-Reference Context and Discoverability in LibrariesSue Polanka · 2011
Directory of conductors' archives in American institutionsHenry Bloch · 2005
Non-federal censuses of Florida, 1784-1945Karen Packard Rhodes · 2009- 📕Coordination of information systems and services in NamibiaAndree-Jeanne Tötemeyer, J. Loubser · 1993
- 📕Tomashi JacksonTomashi Jackson, Corinne Erni · 2021
- 📕Media resources key
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🔗 Related topics
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- Handle System The Handle System is a proprietary registry assigning persistent identifiers, or handles, to information resources, and for resolving "those handles into…
- Digital object identifier A digital object identifier (DOI) is a persistent identifier, or persistent handle, used to uniquely identify various objects, standardized by the International…
- Uniform Resource Name A Uniform Resource Name (URN) is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that uses the urn scheme. URNs are globally unique persistent identifiers assigned…
- Persistent uniform resource locator A persistent uniform resource locator (PURL) is a uniform resource locator (URL, i.e. a uniform resource identifier, or URI, that is location-based) that…
- Uniform Resource Characteristic In IETF specifications, a Uniform Resource Characteristic (URC) is a string of characters representing the metadata of a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)…
- Uniform Resource Identifier A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), formerly Universal Resource Identifier, is a unique sequence of characters that identifies an abstract or physical…
- Dublin Core The Dublin Core vocabulary, also known as the Dublin Core Metadata Terms (DCMT), is a general purpose metadata vocabulary for describing resources of any…