burgerbibliothek/ark-management-tools

PHP library for minting / validating Archival Resource Keys (ARK) and managing Electronic Resource Citation (ERC) Records.

v0.0.14 2026-03-05 13:25 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.3

Requires (Dev)

• phpdocumentor/shim: ^3.9
• phpstan/phpstan: ^2.0
• phpunit/phpunit: ^11.2
• vimeo/psalm: ^6.13

MIT

• Gionathan Diani

README

PHP Library for minting / validating Archival Resource Keys (ARK) and managing Electronic Resource Citation (ERC) Records.

Examples

Generate new ARK

use Burgerbibliothek\ArkManagementTools\Ark

echo ARK::generate('12345', '0123456789bcdfghjkmnpqrstvwxz', 7, 'q1');

Expected possible output:

12345/q15fk5zszx

Verify ARK with NOID Check digit algorithm

use Burgerbibliothek\ArkManagementTools\Ncda

echo ARK::verify('12345/q15fk5zszx', '0123456789bcdfghjkmnpqrstvwxz');

expected Output:

true