First 3 NAAN candidates from West Africa jk: will meet this week with UTSC library about their new ARK service (see code4lib article)
Plugin developed to assign ARK ID for OJS 3.X.X (Smarty/PHP/JavaScript) : plugin available on Github @yasielpv . Documentation isn't easily available, some exam of the package should be reviewed to provide some needed improvements.
Calls for papers, submission deadlines, upcoming meetings
jk: submitted ARK panel proposal for Dec CNI meeting mg: ok to forward EOSC PID workshop to other ARKA working groups
December 13th : Rencontres 2022 de la donnée culturelle (Data Forum for FR Cultural Institutions) : one of the presentations will be the Louvre's Collections portal https://collections.louvre.fr/ : the project, and the ARK permanent identifier attributed to each work displayed.
Any news items we should blog about?
jk: will work with rv on a community update blog post, with an updated map
Summary of the past month activities
13 assignment requests, 4 update requests.
11 new NAANs, 5 updates (2 through the curation form, 3 direct manual updates, as they were recent entries).
#54: test ARKs, regex in the registration form needs to be changed (I like regex but I did not dare to propose a new pattern myself!)
Bug in the update process through the curation form: for #57, I had to do it manually because the form tried to do a NAAN assignment and failed.
New request, but the organization already has a NAAN : #49. Be cautious not to assign a new NAAN; agents might forget one of their predecessors already requested a NAAN.
#46: though there is a doubt on which entity the NAAN is requested (does the provider requests it for a client organization or their entire system?), the warning in the answer is considered sufficient.
Communication on certain NAAN assignment process
When an issue arises, to have a discussion between all group members.
email to requesters (Github is private)
the group email still exists
To adress issues of all kind (technical, or eligibility or else), the Github team group offers a way to notify the whole group @CDLIC3/naan-registry with a link to the specific request card
Action items from last time
John Kunzeclarify and revise the checklist and policy docs to guide curators on use and encouragement of shoulders instead of NAANs; ask rv for feedback
John Kunze change contact form email to forward to Outreach