How ARKs (Archival Resource Keys) quietly grew to 15 billion PIDs at 1900 institutions

ARK (Archival Resource Key) identifiers are decentralized, non-paywalled PIDs.Not everyone knows that ARKs (like DOIs, Handles, URNs, and PURLs) wereintroduced 25 years ago for research and scholarship, and now appear in theData Citation Index, Wikipedia, ORCiD.org profiles, etc. In this session, learn how your institution can begin creating ARKs in 48hours. ARK metadata is very flexible -- from none to anything; for example,many return metadata using the DataCite profile. Learn how there is noregistration requirement for individual ARKs and how they mesh perfectly withthe IIIF images. If yours is a mature institution that already has permalinks,you will find out how you can implement ARKs with just one line in a serverconfiguration file. ARK implementers include 13 national libraries, 215 universities, 254 archives,144 museums, 124 journals, and 59 scientific centers. Adoption is acceleratingin under-resourced institutions from the global South.