The Advisory Group (AG) will provide a means for transitioning the management of the ARK infrastructure (specification, NAAN registry) from the California Digital Library (CDL) to a community supported and managed projectactivity. Planning is underway for an initial meeting of the group to review the goals, proposed timetable and roles drafted so far, as well as to launch working groups dedicated to pursuing objectives related to outreach, technical best practices, and fundraisingsustainability. 

ARKs in the Open Advisory Group ARK Alliance AG members:

• Sayeed Choudhury (Johns Hopkins University)
• Kurt Ewoldsen (John Chodacki (California Digital Library)
• John Howard (University College Dublin)
• Ricc Ferrante (Smithsonian Institution Libraries and Archives), alternate Martin Kalfatovic
• Emmanuel Jaslier Frédérique Joannic-Seta (Bibliothèque nationale de France), alternate Bertrand Caron
• John Kunze, outgoing chair (Drexel University Metadata Research CenterMartin Kalfatovic (Smithsonian Institution Libraries)
• Brian McBride (University of Utah)
• Mark Phillips, Chair (University of North Texas Libraries)
• Andrew Treloar (Australian National Data Service)
• Kate Wittenberg (Portico)

Guided by the Mozilla Foundation’s Open Leadership Framework, LYRASIS and CDL constituted this body by reaching out to those organizations that filled out our Expression of Interest form.

Meeting Times

Teleconferences are generally held every other month, 16:00-17:00 UTC, on the second Thursday. Connection details included in calendar invitations.

Agendas and Notes