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How to use in browser

Please expand the section on how to use in a browser. The article shows a sample structure:

[http://NMAH/]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)[reply]

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	This article was edited as part of the San Francisco WikiWomen's Edit-a-thon. The editor who attended the event may be a new editor. In an effort to support new editor's & a healthy environment, please assume good faith to their contributions before making changes. Thank you! Sarah (talk) 20:23, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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):[reply]

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://wiki.riteme.siteark:/??). 73.223.72.200 (talk) 00:58, 17 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Behaviour of resolvers for URLs ending in ?, ??, ?info

The end of section 1.2 of https://arks.org/assets/documents/2024/ark_spec_39.pdf states:

ARK resolvers must support the "?info" inflection for requesting metadata. Older versions of this specification distinguished between two minimal inflections: '?' (brief metadata) and '??' (more metadata). While these older inflections are still reserved, because they have proven hard to recognize in some environments, supporting them is optional. 2A04:9546:192B:1501:50E2:AA0B:9B3D:9DCA (talk) 17:50, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]