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revisiting new inflection, ?info, as landing pagepage – new document summarizing discussion so far

Proposed: for any ARK X, X?info should lead to an HTML-formatted "landing" document (page) with metadata embedded as JSON-LD. The metadata, in human- and machine-readable form, includes

1. The ARK X
2. Descriptive metadata:
   1. who
   2. what
   3. when
   4. where
   5. how (metatype, similar to resourcetype)
   6. domain-specific elements (eg, publications vs physical samples vs vocabulary terms)
3. PIDs to first-level variants (versions, formats, change history) and components of X, if any
4. PID to the first logical ancestor of X
   1. eg, if X is a PDF variant of a document object, this points to the logical object ARK listing X along with its sibling HTML and MSWord forms
5. PID to the last logical ancestor of X
   1. eg, if X is a section of a chapter of a book, this points to the book logical object
6. Change history, if any
7. Licensing and accessibility information
8. How to cite, including "cite-as" header
9. Persistence statement

A great example to follow would be the A data citation roadmap for scholarly data repositories.