Archive.org auto-assigns an Archival Resource Key (ARK) to every item in its collection. ARKs are used by other institutions too. They function pretty much in the same way as DOIs. The main resolver for ARKs is http://n2t.net. They are designed to be persistent URIs. Many people use the ordinary URL of items in Archive.org for reference, but these URLs are messy, often very long, and assigned randomly by individual uploaders on no uniform scheme.
At present, I enter an ark into the Eprint field, and an Eprinttype of "ark". E.g.,
@Book{kale-1928,
author = {M. R. Kale},
title = {Bāṇa's Kādambarī [Pūrvabhāga Complete]},
location = {Delhi etc.},
publisher = {Motilal Banarsidass},
date = {1928},
edition = {3},
eprint = {ark:/13960/t8cg89f76},
eprinttype = {ark},
}
In my LaTeX style file, I have this Biblatex macro:
\DeclareFieldFormat{eprint:ark}{%
\textsc{ark:}\space
\ifhyperref
{\href{https://n2t.net/#1}{\nolinkurl{#1}}}
{\nolinkurl{#1}}}
This produces satisfactory results in bibliographies.
But in JabRef, I would like to be able to click a link and be taken to http://n2t.net/ark/13960/t8cg89f76, just as I can with a DOI or URL.
Is there a secret way to achieve this? To get a link into the Linked Identifiers column? If not, might a feature be added to JabRef to make this possible? It could be something hard-wired just for ARKs, or it could be a rule-based system that interpreted eprint and eprinttype data according to a rule like \DeclareFieldFormat above.
Archive.org auto-assigns an Archival Resource Key (ARK) to every item in its collection. ARKs are used by other institutions too. They function pretty much in the same way as DOIs. The main resolver for ARKs is http://n2t.net. They are designed to be persistent URIs. Many people use the ordinary URL of items in Archive.org for reference, but these URLs are messy, often very long, and assigned randomly by individual uploaders on no uniform scheme.
At present, I enter an ark into the Eprint field, and an Eprinttype of "ark". E.g.,
In my LaTeX style file, I have this Biblatex macro:
This produces satisfactory results in bibliographies.
But in JabRef, I would like to be able to click a link and be taken to http://n2t.net/ark/13960/t8cg89f76, just as I can with a DOI or URL.
Is there a secret way to achieve this? To get a link into the Linked Identifiers column? If not, might a feature be added to JabRef to make this possible? It could be something hard-wired just for ARKs, or it could be a rule-based system that interpreted eprint and eprinttype data according to a rule like \DeclareFieldFormat above.