Ideas
Early-stage concepts, hypotheses, and innovation opportunities that need durable reference and traceability into later-stage work.
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Features
What ArkID Makes Possible
ArkID is open identity infrastructure for research and innovation. It gives ideas, people, organizations, projects, funding, outputs, and products a durable identity, and makes the relationships between them traceable over time.
Built on open standards and designed for interoperability, ArkID helps research and innovation systems move from fragmented records to accountable, connected infrastructure.
What ArkID identifies
Durable Identifiers for the Full Research and Innovation Graph
ArkID assigns standardized, resolvable identifiers to six core entity types.
People
Researchers, founders, contributors, reviewers, and other participants across the research and innovation lifecycle.
ARKU-0000-0000-2783-9273
Organizations
Universities, startups, labs, public bodies, companies, and institutes that shape research and innovation.
ARKO-0000-0000-5129-3847
Projects
The formal structures through which collaboration, funding, delivery, and accountability are organized.
ARKP-0000-0000-3943-2198
Funding
Calls, grants, instruments, and funding opportunities that shape what gets built and who can participate.
ARKF-0000-0000-1234-567X
Outputs
Publications, datasets, software, deliverables, prototypes, and commercial products that emerge from research and innovation activity.
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Relationships and traceability
How ArkID Connects the Research and Innovation Graph
Relationship model
ArkID models affiliations, authorship, participation, stewardship, funding, and other relationships between entities, so the full picture of research and innovation activity remains traceable.
Time-aware connections
Relationships carry temporal context, making it possible to track how affiliations, roles, and connections evolve over the lifecycle of a project or organization.
Complete provenance
Every path from an early-stage idea through funding, projects, and contributors to final outputs can be traced and verified, with identity claims grounded in resolvable, stable references.
Every ArkID resolves to a public URL, giving each entity a stable, human-readable reference point across systems and over time.
Interoperability
Built to Work Alongside Systems You Already Use
ArkID is designed to sit alongside existing identifiers, not replace them.
External identifier registries
ArkID integrates with the identifier systems research and innovation teams already rely on, so identity can move across platforms rather than being duplicated or lost.
ORCIDRORDOIDataCiteCrossrefOpenAIREPIC
API and integration surfaces
REST and GraphQL APIs, JSON Schema validation, ETL pipelines, and SDK support give developers the surfaces needed to integrate ArkID into existing workflows and platforms.
REST APIGraphQLJSON SchemaETL pipelinesSDK support
Open standards
Grounded in Internationally Recognized Standards
ArkID identifier structure and data models align with established international standards.
ISO 27729 (ISNI)
Identifier structure and check digit algorithm for unique, validated entity references.
ARKU-0000-0000-1234-567X
ISO 8601
Date and time representation for temporal relationship tracking.
2024-01-20T15:30:00Z
ISO 3166-1
Country codes for organization location and jurisdiction data.
US, GB, DE, FR
ISO 4217
Currency codes for project budget and funding instrument data.
USD, EUR, GBP
Trust and governance
Designed for Institutional Trust and Sovereign Foundations
Data protection and sovereignty
ArkID is designed around EU data protection principles and grants users granular control over their public visibility.
EU-based hosting
GDPR-aligned data handling
Granular public visibility controls
Public resolver omits non-public sections automatically
Identity federation and access
Keycloak-based identity foundations provide robust authentication and federation across institutional systems.
OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0
Single sign-on across platforms
Role-based access control
W3C Verifiable Credentials on the roadmap
Open-source and governance
ArkID is open infrastructure stewarded with transparent governance and a long-term direction toward broader community ownership.
Apache 2.0 licensing
Stewarded by Mycel UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Published governance policies
Community contributor pathways
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