Date
Attendees
Goals
Terminology, spec transition plan
Discussion items
Item | Who | Notes |
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Announcements | j: reminder that I'll be making changes to the zoom URL and calendar invitations approaching my last day at CDL (June 29); anyone have zoom link to contribute? r: the National Herbarium has completed digitization of all 5 million specimens; done along the same lines as other SI ARKs | |
Calls for papers, submission deadlines, upcoming meetings: Calendar of events | ||
Any news items we should blog about? |
r: SI is generating ARKs in distinct units with a variety of policies that could be described in a blog post; will come back to the outreach group when we have drafted something | ||
New terminology: saying "an organization or assignment stream that has a NAAN" is a bit long and, for outsiders, a bit technical way to refer to an entity that has the ability to create ARKs. Consider adopting this approximation/shorthand to help connect better with users and without having to first teach them what "NAAN" means: "an ARK organization".
| m: seems fine in principle; could be confusing; ok with trialing it |
m: I don't see it as addressing the highest priority in outreach, which is continued confusion about to do after getting the NAAN and ending up (via google search?) asking EZID for an account | ||
Quickstart guide is live on the website
| r: ACTION I'll talk to our Wordpress people about how to improve prominence of this page | |
| j: much IIIF experience at SI? | |
We've blogged about the upcoming change in the recommended form of newly published ARKs (starting on STARTDATE) – from ark:/12345 (oldform) to ark:12345 (newform)
| rf: confused about CUTOVERDATES; does this mean we have to start normalizing to newform ARKs? do we leave old ARKs in oldform in our system? jk: nothing is intended to tell implementers about changing or normalizing internal representation of ARKs (eg, oldform or newform); we should make this clear and find language that is clear and minimizes stress rf: could we put out some use cases so that people can see what this change means in the real world? mg: yes, what are the implications for (a) our dev team and (b) our users; mg: also, is it up to the ARKA to decide? or do we need a focus group? rf: I like the idea of a focus group because it engages people and helps keep the community alive, but I have no energy for it jk: could use more Outreach members rf: I will float the idea out there for new wg members; Tom Creighton might be a good focus group wrangler |
Action items
- Poll Smithsonian museums about use of ARKs with images, particularly IIIF presented images Riccardo Ferrante
- Explore SEO options for Wordpress websites that might improve ARK Alliance content in Google index ranking Riccardo Ferrante
- Draft blog posts 1) ARK implementation with the recently fully digitized US National Herbarium collections; 2) Use of a central digital asset management system to generate ARKs for different sub-organizations Riccardo Ferrante
- All: be on the lookout for new WG members