Purpose
The Outreach WG oversees development of the ARKs-in-the-Open 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.
A short 2-3 sentence description of why the working group has been formed and what it will accomplish for the project.
Objectives
Campaign strategy. Develop a process to gather requirements, priorities and models for shared community and infrastructure management (eg, consider using the ARK community survey draft created by the BnF).
Communications and Marketing. Clearly articulate what ARKs are, how they can be used, and why they are essential (the “value proposition”) and implement a plan for promoting their adoption and use. Examples include creating an “ARKs brochure” website using the arks.org domain name (similar to doi.org), keeping a world map of ARK assigning organizations updated automatically via geo-locations in the NAAN registry, organizing events such as the 2018 ARK summit, spreading the word in international conferences, etc.
Counting ARKs. People want to know how many ARKs there are in the world (as ARKs can be assigned without permission from a central assigning authority), and some organizations may opt to let us harvest stats from them about how many ARKs they have assigned. Work with the Technical WG to (a) draft requirements for simple summary counts that ARK assigning organizations can voluntarily post and maintain, (b) specify how those counts, once harvested, should be publicized, and (c) recruit organizations to opt in.
Deliverables
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
Notes from the Experts Day at the March 2018 ARK Summit, with discussions of surveys, ARK spec changes, counting ARKs, sustainability, etc: https://wiki.duraspace.org/download/attachments/90979116/ARK_experts_day.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1544062862554&api=v2
n2t.net – current ARKs “home” website; detailed background information on ARKs is available at http://n2t.net/e/ark_ids.html.
A list of existing documents and other resources for reference. Add to this list as content is created by the working group.
Working Group Members
Initial proposed members:
John Howard (AG Liaison), University College Dublin - john.b.howard@ucd.ie
Peter Collopy, Caltech - pcollopy@caltech.edu
Sébastien Peyrard (AG Liaison), BnF -
Tracy Seneca, University of Illinois at Chicago - tjseneca@uic.edu
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Meeting Times
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Communication Channels
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