Become an AITO member for $X (or a contribution in kind) to support the following efforts:
Outreach and Community Building
[This was identified as highest priority in the survey.]
- travel to speak at conferences, training events, eg, FSCI
- design and creation of an arks.org brochure web site
- creation and maintenance of
- ARKs FAQ
- wikipedia page
- slide decks and templates, eg, "Making the case for ARKs in your organization"
- tutorials and webinars
- training videos
- ARK "ads"
- organizing conferences and workshops, eg, a second ARK Summit
- increasing AITO capacity to do all of the above, less dependent on John
* possible membership benefit: access to core experts
Technical Infrastructure
[This was identified as a second priority, and the activities below tend to favor outreach. Priorities may change over time as adoption increases.]
- NAAN registry
- ARK standard
- post-standard evolution organized under arks.org and github
- community metadata development
- harvesting to count and understand the global distribution of ARKs
- work with strategic partners on grants to fund initial development of harvesting mechanism for counting ARKs
- next generation N2T resolver, given poorly understood but increasing reliance on N2T.net by non-CDL (non-EZID) users
- to develop an ARK management interface similar to EZID
