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Learn more about ARKs: http://n2t.net/e/ark_ids.html
Timeline
Advisory Group
Short
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Term - what we're working on now
Developing the pitch
Assembling and convening an ARK advisory group to
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- Convening advisory group
- Spinning up working groups for 1) technical, 2) outreach, and 3) fundraising
- Reviewing and iterating on our pitch
- Defining a governance model
- Defining a financial model
Longer Term - working on these soon!
- Develop procedures for shared maintenance of the organizational registry
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Technical Working Group
Short Term
- Planning work on the ARK IETF specification
- Consult with the ARK specification team
Longer
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Term
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Defining a governance model
Defining a financial model
- Develop procedures for shared maintenance of the organizational registry
- Guiding the ARK specification through the IETF Informational RFC process
- Develop procedures for shared maintenance of the organizational registry
- Launching an initiative to measure ARK usage world-wide
Outreach Working Group
Short term
- Reviewing an ARK community survey draft created by Bibliothèque nationale de France
- Consult with the wider ARK specification team
- community
- Developing a process to gather requirements, priorities and models for shared community and infrastructure management Consult with the wider ARK community
Longer term
- Launching an initiative to measure ARK usage world-wide
- Consider how to use this as a community outreach mechanism
- Make the survey/measurement repeatable so that watching long-term trends is possible
- Prepare a proposal for the Advisory Group
- Develop a dissemination plan
Fundraising Working Group
Short term
- Developing a framework to fund priorities
Longer term
- Pursuing funding with members of our communityDevelop a dissemination plan
Aspirational items - we imagine ourselves working on these!
We envision an active and involved global community that sustains ARK identifiers as part of the open scholarly and research infrastructure.
- Automating
- Sharing responsibility for and automating regular processes, including assignment of organizational NAANs
- Creating an active open source project around the N2T resolver code base
- Creating and maintaining an open source library of ARK integrations with external systems