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The Technical Working Group (WG) oversees development and maintenance of specifications, software, and servers that support infrastructure for the ARKs-in-the-Open (AITO) community. Examples include ARK standardization, code for counting ARKs, and global resolver replication.
A short 2-3 sentence description of why the working group has been formed and what it will accomplish for the project.
Objectives
- Standardization. Review the ARK specification so that the authors, who are WG members, can finalize it and submit it to the IETF for publication as an Internet RFC.
NAAN procedures. Adapt current CDL procedures for updating NAANs and registering new NAANs so that these maintenance activities can be shared by the community, eg, on github. (The NAAN registry that CDL currently maintains is a text file of globally unique 5-digit Name Assigning Authority Numbers (NAANs) reserved for organizations that wish to assign ARKs.)
Counting ARKs. Work with the Outreach Working Group to implement mechanisms to measure ARK usage world-wide.
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Current ARK spec: http://n2t.net/e/arkspec.txt
Current NAAN registry: http://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/naan_registry.txt
Global ARK (and other identifiers) resolver, N2T (Name-to-Thing): https://n2t.net
Notes from ARK "Experts" meetings in 2018, with discussions of surveys, ARK spec changes, counting ARKs, sustainability, etc
General WG features common across AITO working groups
Persistence Statements: Describing Digital Stickiness: https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2017-039
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Working Group Members
Emmanuelle Bermès, BnF
Bertrand Caron, BnF (AG Liaison, Co-chair for NAANs)
- Tom Creighton, Family Search (Co-chair for Counting)
- Adrien Di Mascio, Toucan Toco
- Greg Janée, UC Santa Barbara
- Cillian Joy National University of Ireland, Galway
John Kunze California Digital Library (AG Liaison, Co-chair for Specification)
- Roxana Maurer, National Library of Luxembourg
- Curtis Mirci University of Utah
Sheila Morrissey Portico
- Mark Phillips University of North Texas
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