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==John Kunze==
John Kunze is a pioneer in the theory and practice of digital libraries. With a background in computer science and mathematics, he wrote open source BSD Unix tools that come pre-installed with Mac and Linux systems. For the past 25 years he has been working on cross-domain issues with libraries, archives, museums, and data centers.
He created the ARK (Archival Resource Key) persistent identifier scheme (a non-paywalled alternative to the DOI and Handle systems) and the N2T.net scheme-agnostic resolver (a global ARK resolver, that also resolves hundreds of identifier schemes). Since 2001, 8.2 billion ARKs have been created by over 1400 organizations, including 10 national libraries, 185 universities, 209 archives, 104 museums, and 101 journals.
He also contributed heavily to the first standards for URLs (RFC1736, RFC1625, RFC2056), library search and retrieval (Z39.50), archival transfer (BagIt - RFC8493), web archiving (WARC), and Dublin Core metadata (RFC2413, RFC2731, ANSI/NISO Z39.85).
His specs and tools for repository microservices -- Pairtree, Namaste, ReDD, oxum, ERC/ANVL, TEMPER, THUMP -- may be found in such places as the HathiTrust and OCFL. Follow-on work in metadata includes creation of the Dublin Kernel and yamz.net. His current professional focus is with the ARK Alliance (arks.org).
* [https://jkunze.net jkunze.net]
* [https://arks.org arks.org]
* [https://yamz.net yamz.net]
* [mailto:jakkbl@gmail.com email]
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