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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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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