eprinttype ark

[StevanWhite]

Archival material is often accessed via an ark (Archival Resource Key), for instance, ark keys can be seen in the reference data on this page: https://archive.org/details/elementarytreati00pgta/page/n1/mode/2up

I suggest that you add support for this kind of document identifier.

These are resolved using an ARK resolver. There is more than one; I use the one at http://n2t.net/

Note: in references, I always see "ark" in lowercase letters.

These declarations suffice for me:

\DeclareFieldFormat{eprint:ark}{%
  ark\addcolon\space
  \ifhyperref
    {\href{https://n2t.net/ark:#1}{\nolinkurl{#1}}}
    {\nolinkurl{#1}}}
\DeclareFieldAlias{eprint:ARK}{eprint:ark}

This is used in a bibliography entry like so

  eprint =      {/13960/t0zp3zt39},
  eprinttype =  {ark},

to produce a URL like this https://n2t.net/ark:/13960/t9379hs7x

See:

ARK NAANs and systems https://arks.org/about/ark-naans-and-systems/

The ARK Identifier Scheme https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-kunze-ark-28.html

[moewew]

See also https://github.com/plk/biblatex/issues/38 and https://github.com/plk/biblatex/issues/1155.

If unlike for URNs it is guaranteed that (the/every) resolver resolves all valid ARKs, we can look into adding this as a default eprint declaration.

What I'm a bit worried about is that you say N2T is just one resolver. Why should we force that particular resolver upon users as a default choice? Are there others? Would users want to select other resolvers? Is N2T likely to remain stable?

[StevanWhite]

I'm afraid that such questions are for you to decide: I don't understand the issues well enough.

The fact that there is more than one resolver, I noticed in the link I provided: https://arks.org/about/ark-naans-and-systems/. Maybe that page explains better how it works --- I only skimmed through it.

[plk]

@moewew - N2T seems to be the main "meta-resolver" and seems rather useful. For example, it resolves DOIs, I just tried:

https://n2t.net/DOI:/10.17605/OSF.IO/9P7CB

which works fine

PubMED IDs:

https://n2t.net/PMID:/36890230

ISSNs and ISBNs:

https://n2t.net/ISSN:/615-682536 https://n2t.net/ISBN:/0593420411

I wonder if we shouldn't add an option to use n2t for every resolvable thing we can, which will cover all of these proliferating eprint types?