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The Technical Working Group (WG) oversees development and maintenance of specifications, software, and servers that support infrastructure for the ARKs-in-the-Open (AITOARK Alliance (ARKA) community. Examples include ARK standardization, code for counting ARKs, and global resolver replication.
Objectives
- Standardization. Review the ARK specification so that the authors, who are WG members, can finalize it and submit it to the IETF for publication as an Internet RFC.NAAN procedures. Adapt current CDL procedures for updating NAANs and registering new NAANs so that these maintenance activities can be shared by the community, eg, on github. (The NAAN registry that CDL currently maintains is a text file of globally unique 5-digit Name Assigning Authority Numbers (NAANs) reserved for organizations that wish to assign ARKs.)
- Work with standards bodies (IETF, NISO, W3C, etc) to adopt the ARK spec.
- Design and review '?info' inflection for returning human- and machine-readable metadata.
- Global ARK resolver. Guide the development and hosting of the N2T.net resolver.
- Counting ARKs. Work with the Outreach Working Group to
- to implement mechanisms (eg, surveys, APIs) to measure ARK usage world-wide.
Deliverables
Kickoff: clarify objectives and assign roles for (a) standardization and (b) NAAN procedures designers; spec authors articulate areas they think are problematic
Months 1-5: several rounds of review, feedback, and revision for (a) and (b), including public review via the arks-forum list; expect also interaction with the Outreach WG when they send requirements for (c) the “counting ARKs” project, for which design and prototyping then begins
Month 6: ARK spec submitted to IETF; NAAN procedures are piloted; counting ARKs prototype is tested
Months 7-12: further refinements to procedures; ask Outreach Working Group to identify more orgs with ARKs to be counted; deal with inevitable spec feedback from the IETF
Month 11: production-ready procedures in place; production-ready ARK counting is in place
Month 12: updated WG objectives and deliverables for the coming year, with an accordingly updated overall AITO roadmap
Resources
- Support the Outreach WG in a liaison with the IIIF community.
- Work with standards bodies (IETF, NISO, W3C, etc) to adopt the ARK spec.
Deliverables
- A declarative schema (e.g. JSON Schema) for NAAN entry record, for validation.
- schema definition
- adjusted tooling to work with schema
- tool to generate the ANVL format from json for 3rd party consumers
- Transition to new ARK spec.
- Spin off a Persistence Statements group (charter, timeline)
- Investigate moving arks.org from a Wordpress site to a github pages site
- Move lyrasis confluence wiki content to github.
Resources
- 2008 Current
- ARK spec: http://n2t.net/e/arkspec.txt
- 2022 ARK spec: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-kunze-ark-34
- Current NAAN registry: http
- https:// www
- n2t. cdlib.org
- net/ services
- e/ uc3
- pub/naan_registry.txt
- Global ARK (and other identifiers) resolver, N2T (Name-to-Thing): https://n2t.net
- Notes from ARK "Experts" meetings in 2018, with discussions of surveys, ARK spec changes, counting ARKs, sustainability, etc
- Outreach WG and
- and Sustainability WG
- General WG features common across AITO
- across ARKA working groups
- Persistence Statements: Describing Digital Stickiness:
- https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2017-039
Working Group Members
- Emmanuelle Bermès, BnFBermes École des Chartes
Bertrand Caron BnF (AG Liaison, Co-chair for NAANs) BnF
- Randy Wilson, FamilySearch
- Tom Creighton Family Search (Co-chair for Counting) ex-FamilySearch
- Karen Hanson PorticoAdrien Di Mascio Toucan Toco
- Greg Janée UC Santa Barbara
- Cillian Joy National University of Ireland, Galway
John Kunze California Digital Library (AG Liaison, Co-chair for Specification) chair, Ronin Institute
- Lautaro Matas LA Referencia
- Roxana Maurer National Library of Luxembourg
- Curtis Mirci University of Utah Sheila Morrissey Portico
- Mark Phillips University of North Texas
- Amir Alwash HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland
- Dave Vieglais vice-chair, Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, University of Kansas
- Donny Winston Polyneme LLC
Meeting Times
Teleconferences are generally held twice once a month, 1708:00-18:00 UTC09:00 San Francisco time, on the first and third Mondayssecond Tuesday. Connection details included in calendar invitations.
Communication Channels
aitoarka-technical-wg@googlegroups.com, archived at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/aitoarka-technical-wg
IETF discussion list: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ark
Agendas and Notes
** add standing agenda item: "ARK spec transition report" **
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