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The Outreach Working Group (WG) oversees development of the ARKs-in-the-Open (AITOARK Alliance (ARKA) community, as well as the promotion of awareness, understanding, and adoption of ARKs, the only major persistent identifier scheme that is truly open, decentralized, non-siloed, and non-paywalled.

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• Kickoff: clarify objectives and assign roles for the three objectives

• Month 1: share draft campaign and awareness strategies with the AG for early feedback and share it with sustainability WG for review

• Month 2: draft requirements (and share with the Technical WG) and a vision for publicizing ARK counts; after feedback, begin implementing the campaign and awareness strategies

• Months 3-5: several rounds of review, feedback, and revision, including public review via the arks-forum list; expect also interaction with the Technical WG when they share designs and prototypes

• Month 6: work with the Technical WG to test the counting ARKs prototype; propose plan for ARKs brochure site; analysis from the results of the survey and share early basic results with the Technical WG for the needs for the standardization process

• Months 7-12: reach out to recruit more organizations with ARKs to be counted

• Month 11: production-ready brochure site, including publicity about the survey; 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

• Not yet built out arks.org domain name (currently pointing to n2t.net)

• n2t.net – current ARKs “home” website; detailed background information on ARKs is available at http://n2t.net/e/ark_ids.html

• Notes from ARK "Experts" meetings in 2018, with discussions of surveys, ARK spec changes, counting ARKs, sustainability, etc

  • Latest draft survey

• Technical WG

• General WG features common across AITO across ARKA working groupsAITO roadmap

Working Group Members

• Bertrand Caron (AG Liaison), BnF 

• Peter Sachs Collopy Caltech

• Kurt Ewoldsen CDL

• Maria Gould CDL

• John B Howard (AG Liaison), University College Dublin
• John Kunze CDL
• Julien Antoine Raemy Data and Service Center for the Humanities (DaSCH)

• Tracy Seneca University of Illinois at Chicago

• Carlos Authier National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina
• Roxana Maurer National Library of Luxembourg

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Teleconferences are generally held once a month, 16:00-17:00 UTC, on the fourth Thursday. Connection details included in calendar invitations.

Communication Channels

aitoarka-outreach-wg@googlegroups.com, archived at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/aitoarka-outreach-wg

Agendas and Notes

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