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upcoming meetings, calls for papers, submission deadlines

1. Is it a good idea to have this submission form for anyone to suggest a blog post or news item for an upcoming ARKA newsletter?   arks.org/blog/submit
2. Consider presenting at the PASIG (Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group) in September. The call is not out, but informally I'm told they'll be interested in ARKA topics.
3. RDA: Looks like request for papers is closed for RDA 17 (April 20-22), though posters is still open:

 https://www.rd-alliance.org/rdas-17th-plenary-call-posters

The next RDA plenary 18 is November 8-11, but there's no CfP yet.

4. iPRES 2021, Beijing - Oct 19-22. Call for papers

progress on sending out rollout announcement is slow

• sign ups are sparse – are WG members not using these lists? are they using other lists?
• are there other announcement channels we should use
• should we tweet again, or every so often
• who is "we"? WG members? the arks_org twitter account?
• do we have an announcement template to start with? (TS)

PID guides from which ARK is missing

from PIDapalooza talk: How to get heritage organisations to start using PIDs: a tale of two countries, about two national PID projects:

• Persistent Identifiers as IRO Infrastructure in UK

o   Next step: write a guide to help with choosing persistent identifiers (until October 2021)

o   Contact person: Frances Madden (British Library), Research Identifiers Lead & overseeing the BL's contribution to the FREYA project

• Persistent Identifier Guide in The Netherlands

o   they wrote documentation & a guide for helping institutions choose a PID

o   ARK is not among the options

o   Contact person: Remco van Veenendaal (National Archives of the Netherlands), Project Manager Persistent Identifier project

It might be a good idea for the Outreach group to get involved and contact the people involved in the 2 projects, so that ARK gets included in the list of possible options for PID. If people don’t hear about it, they’re never going to choose it.

Furthermore, they also mentioned a European project that also had as a delivery a guide for choosing PIDs: FREYA Project (Connected Open Identifiers for Discovery, Access and Use of Research Resources) - Guides to Choosing Persistent Identifiers - Version 3 (July 2020), where, once again, ARK is not among the options. Even though the project seems to be finished, someone from the Outreach group could still inquire whether a new version of the guide is possible and try to include ARK in the list.

ARK Wikipedia page revisited

• build on S. Peyrard's (former WG member) work on the comparison of the French and English pages, and the proposed structure: ARK Wikipedia page, French / English version.