2024-05-15 NAAN Registry WG Agenda and Notes

jk: Everyone in this group should yet have received a github invitation to maintain content on the arks.org website (supported by the "github pages" mechanism). Also, I really enjoyed the opportunity to meet some of the members of the group in Paris.

jk: should we as a group develop some guidelines for assessing requests that come in from tiny organizations that are possibly only concerned with personal data/content? On the one hand, we're pretty liberal with request from orgs that are (a) brand new (eg, no website yet) and (b) small (anticipating growth). On the other hand, we don't want people to abuse the registry for purely personal information or self-promotion (including family genealogy).
jm: do we have any public criteria that can be used to help people decide whether they meet the criteria before submitting request?
jk: we've never committed to a public policy, but maybe we should go public with a little bit more than we have
rv: some seem to be personal sites, such as one devoted to the requester's father's works. Perhaps one criterion should be whether the subject  is of general interest? what extra questions can we ask?
ac: we have accepted one request to host personal research data of general interest, and in that case the subject was not the researcher's own family. It was an individual's effort, but scholarship of general interest.
jk: so maybe we should consider additional questions to put to the requester to press them a little on things like preservation plan, growth of the organization, and scope of the  subject matter
rv: we could start by adding a note to the curator checklist

Zoom chat:
rv: Mine was: https://wolfgangkirk.de/
jc: I agree that the liberal nature of registering is a key feature of ARKs.
We already ask a preservation question in the form, correct?
I need to drop off. But I would worry about putting up too many barriers.

Curator changeover as of today (standing schedule always found on group home page)