Subject: [dsii] announcing ARK identifier discussion group

From: Beth Plale <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 08:24:27 -0400

Hi

the below is relevant background information for the upcoming BOF on data set identifier interoperability.  

best, beth

: Beth Plale
: Director, Data to Insight Center
: Managing Director, Pervasive Technology Institute
: Indiana University Bloomington

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> From: "John A. Kunze" <[email-masked]>
> Subject: [Esip-preserve] announcing ARK identifier discussion group
> Date: July 12, 2012 7:47:25 PM EDT
> 
> The University of California Curation Center (UC3) at the California
> Digital Library (CDL) is pleased to announce the formation of the first
> discussion group for ARKs (Archival Resource Keys) at
> 
> 	http://groups.google.com/group/arks-forum
> 
> The group is intended as a public forum for people interested in sharing
> with and learning from others about how ARKs have been or could be used
> in identifier applications.
> 
> The forum is also intended as a mechanism for the CDL/UC3, in its role as
> the ARK scheme maintenance agency, to seek community feedback on a number
> of longer term issues and activities, including
> 
>   -  publishing the ARK specification as an Internet RFC,
>   -  clarifying local and global resolution options, and
>   -  understanding metadata retrieval in a linked data environment.
> 
> The number of institutions that have registered interest in assigning
> ARKs [1], currently over 100, has grown steadily in ten years.  The ARK
> scheme specification [2] was recently renewed as an Internet-Draft [3]
> and has been stable since 2008.  A few small changes are expected before
> proposing it as an Internet RFC.  We hope you will consider joining in
> the discussion about these topics and others.
> 
> -John
> 
> [1] http://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/naan_table.html
> [2] http://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/arkspec.pdf
> [3] http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-kunze-ark-16.txt
> 
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