Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 04:42:51 -0400 (EDT)
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Purpose
The Outreach Working Group (WG) oversees development of the ARK Al=
liance (ARKA) community, as well as the promotion of awareness, understandi=
ng, and adoption of ARKs, the only major persistent identifier scheme that =
is open, decentralized, non-siloed, and non-paywalled.
Objectives
- Develop strategies for gathering requirements, priorities, and mo=
dels for shared community and infrastructure management. Examples include A=
RK community survey draft created by the BnF, organizing events such as the=
2018 ARK summit, spreading the word in international conferences, supporti=
ng the world map of ARK assigning organizations updated via geo-locations i=
n the NAAN registry, etc.
- Clearly articulate what ARKs are, how they can be used, and why t=
hey are essential (the =E2=80=9Cvalue proposition=E2=80=9D) and promote the=
ir adoption and use.
- Maintain and update the ARK Alliance website at arks.or=
g and documentation at the n2t.net=
ARK resolver.
- Support the calendar of events=
and list of ARKA-r=
elated email groups.
- Develop ways to characterize ARK usage, such as surveys or an API=
permitting ARK organizations to self-report via a harvestable API endpoint=
.
- Develop training materials and videos.
- Oversee the information used to support ARKA working groups=
(currently Confluence wiki).
Deliverables
- public website maintenance and published blog posts
- newsletter and wikipedia page (ongoing)
- social media (such as Mastodon, Twitter, Discord, Zulip, Youtube)=
- action plan to represent ARK-identified resources and Name Assign=
ing Authorities in Wikidata
- maintain material (on arks.org) associated with getting start=
ed with ARKs
- plan for community to transition from v18 to the v37 specificatio=
n
- canned presentations, slide shows, webinars
- translations of existing documents (e.g., https://francearchives.gouv.fr/fr/ar=
ticle/339695117)
- tool resource guides to promote ARK software (eg, OJS plugin)
- ARKA representation on NDSA and IIIF working groups
- move wiki and wordpress site to github pages
Resources
Working Group Mem=
bers
Meeting Times
Teleconferences are generally held=
every other month, 16:00-17:00 UTC, on the fourth Thursday. Connection details included in calendar invita=
tions.
Communication C=
hannels
arka-outreach-wg@googlegroups.com, archived at&nb=
sp;https://groups.google.com/forum/#!for=
um/arka-outreach-wg
Agendas and Notes
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