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Wrapping up 2023 with 1200 ARK organizations

Map of ARK organizations as of December 2023

2023 was another big year for the ARK Alliance (ARKA). Some highlights:

  • registered 167 ARK organizations (most recent listed at the end)
  • developed the first ever ARK tutorial, delivered at 16 conferences in versions ranging from 15 minutes to 3 hours; example videos: 60 minutes, 18 minutes
  • engaged the West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN) and LA Referencia (a Latin American network of open science repositories), which are contributing 3 people to ARKA working groups
  • welcomed a total of 9 new working group members to the ARK Alliance
    • Donny Winston, John Jung, Chloé Pochon, Omo Oaiya, Lesley Frew, Lautaro Matas, Sefakor Ankora, Jack O’Malley, and Sergio Santamarina
  • published the ARK Community Code of Conduct
  • worked with the Dutch PID Guide (PIDwijzer) to integrate ARKs
  • made ARK Alliance stickers available to order online here
Chart of growth of ARK-assigning organizations from 2001 to December 2023.
ARK Alliance vinyl sticker, available to order online.

The past six months have seen the usual accelerating growth in the ARK community, including registration of 93 new ARK organizations. As always we welcome new volunteers for our working groups, especially those interested in raising ARK awareness and curating requests for new ARK organizations. Please let us know via email to info@arks.org.

With a total of over 1200, we close with a list of the 93 ARK organizations registered since 2023-06-11:

  • Archives municipales de Noisiel
  • Musée de la préfecture de Police
  • Núcleo de Historia Social Popular
  • Efficience Digitale
  • Varga Webkiadó
  • Stichting Het Behouden Blik
  • Museum Wierdenland
  • Museum Klooster Ter Apel
  • Egyháztörténeti Szemle
  • Sárospataki Füzetek
  • West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN)
  • Museum du Havre
  • AIPMEL
  • Pakistan Journal of Linguistics
  • Archives municipales de Thionville
  • Libro Cazadores de Microbios en Venezuela
  • NFDI4Culture
  • Journal of Intelligent Systems and Computing
  • Archives Municipales de Rémire-Montjoly
  • Revista Científica ConCiencia Jurídica
  • Revista Cubana de Tecnología de la Salud
  • NOBLE Institute for New Generation
  • Royal Institute for Research and Educational Development
  • Gaceta Médica Estudiantil
  • Proyecto Albalat - Projet Albalat
  • Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica
  • Archives départementales de la Seine-Saint-Denis
  • Shared NAAN for Inline Concepts
  • Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung Köln
  • KLEKSI
  • European Holocaust Research Infrastructure
  • Rijksmuseum Boerhaave
  • Eko-Konnect Research and Education Initiative
  • The Claremont Colleges Library
  • Chaumet International SA
  • University of British Columbia ArtsISIT
  • Service des archives, Université Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne
  • Association Mélanges Caraïbes
  • Archives municipales de Rezé
  • Journal of Phytopathology and Disease Management
  • Área de Lingüística y Antropología (IMHICIHU-CONICET)
  • Arizona State Archives
  • Bursa Uludag University
  • Bronzeville Historical Society
  • Revista Politikón
  • Comité Interministeriel d’Aménagement du Territoire
  • University of Hawaii Climate Research Collaborative
  • Red de Información de Inteligencia Competitiva en los Deportes de Combate
  • Disc4All International Training Network
  • Ciencia Interior - Revista de Ciencias Básicas y Aplicadas
  • Musée national Picasso - Paris
  • Actoon
  • Musée Roybet-Fould
  • University of Innsbruck
  • Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires
  • Bulgarian Society of Neurology
  • Arca
  • Musée Saint-Vic
  • Universitas Utpadaka Swastika
  • Commune du Chesnay-Rocquencourt
  • Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
  • Biblioteca Central de la Universidad de La Habana
  • NOLEJ
  • University of York Library Archives and Learning Services
  • Louis Andriessen Stichting
  • Institut de recherche interdisciplinaire Homme-Société
  • JCK museum
  • Archives Municipales de Roncq
  • Archives municipales de Pantin
  • Archives départementales de l’Isère
  • Het Scheepvaartmuseum
  • Repositorio Digital Institucional de la Universidad de Buenos Aires
  • Ελληνικό Μουσείο Πληροφορικής (Hellenic IT Museum)
  • Moebius Software
  • Archives du Palais princier de Monaco
  • Good Clinical Practice Alliance - Europe
  • meemoo (Flemish Institute for Archives)
  • Fondo Editorial CEIPA, Revista Perspectiva Empresarial
  • Universidad de Colima
  • Avignon Bibliothèques
  • Académie des sciences
  • RELEASE EDITORIAL LTDA
  • Colonial Collections Consortium
  • TP d’AVENIR
  • Association ARHIAs
  • Bibliothèques municipales de la ville de Genève
  • KastelenInNederland.nl
  • R74n
  • Burgerbibliothek Bern
  • Revista Cubana de Geografia
  • Macalester Street Journal
  • Agir pour l’École
  • Teylers Museum

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