The Outreach Working Group (WG) oversees development of the ARK Alliance (ARKA) community, as well as the promotion of awareness, understanding, and adoption of ARKs, the only major persistent identifier scheme that is open, decentralized, non-siloed, and non-paywalled.
Campaign strategy. Develop a process to gather requirements, priorities and models for shared community and infrastructure management (eg, consider using the ARK community survey draft created by the BnF).
Communications and Marketing. Clearly articulate what ARKs are, how they can be used, and why they are essential (the “value proposition”) and implement a plan for promoting their adoption and use. Examples include creating an “ARKs brochure” website using the arks.org domain name, keeping a world map of ARK assigning organizations updated automatically via geo-locations in the NAAN registry, organizing events such as the 2018 ARK summit, spreading the word in international conferences, etc.
Counting ARKs. People want to know how many ARKs there are in the world (as ARKs can be assigned without permission from a central assigning authority), and some organizations may opt to let us harvest stats from them about how many ARKs they have assigned. Work with the Technical WG to (a) draft requirements for simple summary counts that ARK assigning organizations can voluntarily post and maintain, (b) specify how those counts, once harvested, should be publicized, and (c) recruit organizations to opt in.
website and blog
newsletter and wikipedia page
guide to getting started with ARKs
plan for community to transition from v18 to the v34 specification
arks.org domain name
n2t.net ARK resolver
Notes from ARK "Experts" meetings in 2018, with discussions of surveys, ARK spec changes, counting ARKs, sustainability, etc
General WG features common across ARKA working groups
Peter Sachs Collopy Caltech
Maria Gould CDL
Tracy Seneca University of Illinois at Chicago
Teleconferences are generally held once a month, 16:00-17:00 UTC, on the fourth Thursday. Connection details included in calendar invitations.
arka-outreach-wg@googlegroups.com, archived at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/arka-outreach-wg