Purpose

The Technical Working Group (WG) oversees development and maintenance of specifications, software, and servers that support infrastructure for the ARK Alliance (ARKA) community. Examples include ARK standardization, code for counting ARKs, and global resolver replication.

Objectives

  1. Standardization. Work with standards bodies (IETF, NISO, W3C, etc) to adopt the ARK spec.
  2. Design and review '?info' inflection for returning human- and machine-readable metadata.
  3. Global ARK resolver. Guide the development and hosting of the N2T.net resolver.
  4. Counting ARKs. Work with the Outreach Working Group to implement mechanisms (eg, surveys, APIs) to measure ARK usage world-wide.
  5. Support the Outreach WG in a liaison with the IIIF community.
  6. Work with standards bodies (IETF, NISO, W3C, etc) to adopt the ARK spec.

Deliverables

  • A declarative schema (e.g. JSON Schema) for NAAN entry record, for validation.
    • schema definition
    • adjusted tooling to work with schema
    • tool to generate the ANVL format from json for 3rd party consumers
  • Transition to new ARK spec.
  • Spin off a Persistence Statements group (charter, timeline)
  • Investigate moving arks.org from a Wordpress site to a github pages site
  • Move lyrasis confluence wiki content to github.

Resources

Working Group Members

Meeting Times

Teleconferences are generally held once a month, 08:00-09:00 San Francisco time, on the second Tuesday. Connection details included in calendar invitations.

Communication Channels

arka-technical-wg@googlegroups.com, archived at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/arka-technical-wg

IETF discussion list: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ark

Agendas and Notes

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