Talk:Archival Resource Key

How to use in browser
Please expand the section on how to use in a browser. The article shows a sample structure: ark:/NAAN/Name[Qualifier] but could benefit from "live" examples which are accessible.

Also, please explain this statement: While ARKs have application in identifier persistence, the ARK scheme sees persistence as purely a matter of service and not a property of a naming syntax. — Senator2029  ║  talk  01:38, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Not entirely sure that anatomy of an ARK is correct
Currently the first paragraph of the entry contains the following:


 * An ARK contains the label ark: after the URL's hostname,...

But I believe this in fact should read "after the URL's pathname". It just so happens that all of the example ARK URLs that I find have an empty path, like http://myrepo.example.org/ark:/12345/bcd987. So the offending text doesn't look like an error but I'm pretty sure that it is.

I don't want to change it because I had not heard of ARKs before about 15 minutes ago and am a little unsure that I'm correct.

--Nc4096 (talk) 04:35, 25 August 2015 (UTC):


 * That whole paragraph is kind of incomprehensible; someone familiar with the spec would need to explain what was meant. As is, it's clearly wrong (taken literally, it means https://en.wikipedia.orgark:/??). 73.223.72.200 (talk) 00:58, 17 October 2023 (UTC)