2022-04-28 Outreach WG Agenda and Notes

Date

28 Apr 2022

Item	Who	Notes
Announcements
Calls for papers, submission deadlines, upcoming meetings: Calendar of events
Any news items we should blog about?
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". the NAAN WG is ok with this terminology propose that we begin with small experiments to see if it helps in practice; withdraw or revise if it doesn't help
Quickstart guide is live on the website top menu link: GET STARTED
ARK & IIIF blog post need volunteers to break it down into sub-posts
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) what is STARTDATE? how do we determine what STARTDATE is? when do we change documentation on the website and wikipedia? recall that all sites producing newform ARKs must also serve all their ARKs in newform or oldform, regardless of production date, eg, 2025 at CUTOVERDATE, all sites should serve all their ARKs in either newform or oldform, regardless of production date, eg, 2006

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