2023-11-09 AG Agenda and Notes

jc: as part of upgrading CDL infrastructure, a cutover was made yesterday ARK resolution is going through arks.org and ARK static pages are no longer going through the Dreamhost Wordpress site; it's now ok to shut down the Dreamhost account; CDL is still working on a newly refactored N2T code
jk: we knew this was in the works, but it would have been nice to have advance notice with the precise time and date for such a major transition that affects all ARK resolution globally
mp: i didn't know if it would be this week or in January, would be better to have advance notice
jc: sounds great; the next major transition will be Nov 27 (newly refactored N2T); will coordinate with Maria on Outreach WG for mechanics on the changes
mp: it is also undefined how changes to github get into the server at CDL/AWS; we need to understand this so that the ARKA can resume document maintenance
jk: yes, over a dozen people had edit access to the Wordpress content, but no member of an ARKA working group currently knows how to make edits

Updates from Groups:

• Technical 
• NAAN
• Outreach

Technical WG: original member Tom Creighton from FamilySearch has retired, Rob Lyon will be asked to replace him; activity to identify and add missing ARK properties in wikidata; on-boarding newer people; ARK spec renewed last week

Outreach WG: 3 tutorials and 1 i-school class presentation of ARK introduction; blog template created for drawing out elements of a simple blog post for an institution, to be piloted with a subgroup and the Frick collection; lots of interest in the Frick's arklet implementation (with shoulders and inflections and different metadata formats); ARKA youtube channel is getting some playlist curation (John Jung)

NAAN WG: 35 new orgs since Sept 1; cleaned up group protocol for dealing with old tickets; a few edge cases dealt with

Options for moving off the Lyrasis wiki

jc: googledocs seems ok
jk: don't think we have big requirements for lyrasis move; would like to keep maintenance burden low
jb: agree about low maintenance; google account may be good enough; not worth spending much time on; fine if you want to use IA's google workspace account
jk: would it be ok to move 4 WG home pages to arks.org, as well as the FAQs (4 docs), conference calendar (leaving it to WGs to figure out how to handle meeting notes/agendas)?
mp: ok by me
mp: jc can you ask Lyrasis if we can stay on wiki until Dec 31? I can volunteer William Hicks to connect with jk and Outreach group

Next Steps for Advisory Group Discussion

mp: what about sustainability, funding, org models, what does the AG want to do going forward? what about new AG members, new time schedule?
mp: I'll push this discussion to the January meeting; i'm on sabbatical in Santa Fe until Thanksgiving
jk: for January, I'd be interested in generating ideas for what we can do with offers of help (eg, the recent Dutch offer of staff and servers)