Starting meeting from where Nov 14 AG meeting left off... KW: what would a public announcement say? KE: good question, what's the message KW: the MVP, to keep essential services going, KW: 40 x $5K could work; portico does it by size, but there are costs to administer a tiered model LA: it's easy to talk about this as a one-time thing; different answer for doing it for the long term; membership fatigue needs to be counter-acted; in parallel with a m'ship strategy, could you have strategic partners that could take on some of the burden so that the membership ask is lower; also, how can members become partners; very hard to count on in-kind contributions in future; but you can look at what's been done to see if a member qualifies for the next year KW: worst thing that can happen is if the fee changes, since libraries have a hard time dealing with that kind of change; so make sure not to low ball initially; LA: if you pre-pay, you should get a multi-year benefit; they have to feel like their fee is really keeping things going KW: why would anyone pay if CDL is not saying they're pulling out ... LA: the longer an org has done, it the harder it can be to get out of it; here's where partners can help ... KE: will talk to GW about getting a clear message out KE: per KW, tiered membership can be hard to administer; per LA, partners should be sought to lower the ask
Numbers of respondents for survey questions 8-19
Effort
Funding
Effort to promote ARK understanding and usage
19
3
Effort to catalog what ARKs are being used to identify
11
1
Effort to coordinate the activities of the newly forming ARK community and provide policy, governance, sustainability & administrative support
8
3
Open source development of ARK resolver software (next generation of NOID &N2T.net)
9
1
Open source development of ARK management application (similar toezid.cdlib.org)
7
2
Running a consortial ARK infrastructure based on the open source efforts listed above on behalf of the ARK community