John Kunze
jakkbl.bsky.social
John Kunze
@jakkbl.bsky.social
Computer scientist working with data centers, libraries, museums, and archives. Interests in data, metadata, identifiers. Also on mastodon: @jakkbl@fosstodon.org.
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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...
Invest in Open Infrastructure supports LA Referencia and the dARK initiative
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
December 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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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...
Wrapping up 2025 with 1720 ARK organizations
In 2025, the ARK Alliance achieved significant milestones, surpassing 1720 registered ARK organizations.
arks.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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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...
ARK Alliance
ARK Alliance: Global community for open, decentralized ARK identifiers supporting research and scholarship. 8.2 billion ARKs created by 1600+ orgs.
arks.org
July 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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
LD4 2025 Conference: ARK persistent identifiers: affordable l...
View more about this event at LD4 2025 Conference
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July 28, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Someone has put our thoughts into words: Dr. Pru Lee on the Cheney/Kinzinger facebook page. Continues in comments.

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April 17, 2025 at 3:52 AM