2021-06-10 AG Agenda and Notes

Wikipedia updates effective in feeding → google knowledge panel

• what do you see when you search google for:  ark identifier

Independent NAAN curation – month 3 status

• curation duty roster on NAAN WG home page
• new NAAN form done
• need to add "update NAAN" capability
• promising work from a French archiving intern on automated map generation, plus categorization of institutions 

- Architecture

- Archives

- Association (only one)

- Bank (only one)

- Construction (only one)

- Publication

- Education : all organizations which have pedagogical content and which are not university

- Governement agency

- IT : organisations that offer services related to new technologies and software

- Law (only one)

- Library

- Media : journalism, TV, press agencies ...

- Museum

- Music : only 3, maybe we can put it in others categories

- Research : all institutes, laboratories and foundations that are not universities

- University

forming a nonprofit - issues

    financial consequences? taxes?
    n2t.net as global ARK resolver infrastructure
    purpose: 
     - own the arks.org and n2t.net domains
     - own the ARK trademark
     - do an MOU or contract
     - receive grant funding