2024 08 13 Technical WG Agenda and Notes

Attendees

• Karen Hanson, Randy Wilson, Lautaro Matas, Greg Janée, John Kunze

Goals

• document sites: wiki conversion, recipe for arks.org editing

Discussion items

Item	Owner
Announcements	all

Tom Creighton retiring from ARKA and turning it over to Randy Wilson (also of FamilySearch)
jk: btw, any word on FS accepting ark:12345 as well as ark:/12345 ?
rw: met with a few people, who prefer shorter form; we'll keep minting with the / and in case people submit without the /, we should be able to handle it; general response in house is whether there will be any need since most of our users won't parse our ARKs
jk: has anyone looked in the logs for failed ark:12345 type of access? it's generally the aggregators (not target users) that will create trouble when they normalize and point to your stuff with ARKs that will appear not to resolve (in which case users blame both ARKs and FS)
rw: probably we should convert ark: to ark:/ at the front door; we do have some third parties that will be effected

lm: we are moving forward with dARK implementation, meeting with 80 institutions; 17 now have formalized their intentions; starting with 4 institutions
jk: the NAAN working group is prepared to receive a block of 4 new NAANs records

Item	Owner
Any news items we should blog about? Any calls for papers, submission deadlines, upcoming meetings we should note? See Calendar of Events (ARKA-Calendar).	all

rw: would be good to have blog post about FS use of Accept type
gj: might be good to present at the USE conference (I'll be going, presenting curriculum for data curation)

Item	Owner
Status of confluence to github wiki conversion Markdown workarounds: no lists in tables, no real hierarchy, no hyphens in filenames	John (and thanks to Karen)

• Markdown plus minor HTML (<br>) can fix many things
• Tables a little awkward (eg, must have header, blank or otherwise)
• Can have directories, but dirs don't appear in links (so all filenames have to be unique, like this agenda doc's)
• Filename repeats title (violating DRY), and don't put hyphens in the agenda filename, else the fix: git pull; git mv '2024'$'\342\200\220''08'$'\342\200\220''13-Technical-WG-Agenda-and-Notes.md' 2024-08-13-Technical-WG-Agenda-and-Notes.md

gj: kudos on the conversion, looks like lots of scripting work
jk: can everyone on this call edit pages?
lm: can you add GH handle lmatas?
jk: done

Item	Owner
Any final reflections on the June 24 N2T.net + arks.org resolver upgrade?	Dave

• n2t.net/pdb: not working -- compare to legacy-n2t.n2t.net/pdb:

Item	Owner
Action items from last time	all

• Dave will see about MIT license for arks.org repo
• John will add issue about missing redirects for blog->news

Item	Owner
Trying out procedures to update arks.org static pages	John

• Summary: edit main branch of arks-org/arks.github.io, look at rendering (hourly syncs with arks.org)
• More cautious: fork own copy, edit its main branch, look at rendering; ok? merge with upstream
• More efficient: install jekyll, render instantly without git-commit, git-push to render

gj: status of the spec and standardization?
jk: next step is to add .well-known

rw: ok if static site looks clunky, but we need things to look like someone cares; lends credence if things are kept up to date
jk: we could use regular feedback on whether things are clear and complete

Zoom chat

08:08:09 From John Kunze to Everyone:
    https://github.com/arks-org/arks.github.io/wiki/2024-08-13-Technical-WG-Agenda-and-Notes
08:11:46 From Lautaro Matas to Everyone:
    mi github is lmatas
08:17:19 From Karen Hanson to Everyone:
    I have the edit button
08:29:08 From Lautaro Matas to Everyone:
    I am sorry, I need to leave in 2 mins
08:29:14 From Lautaro Matas to Everyone:
    beacause another meeting
08:54:59 From Greg Janée to Everyone:
    I'm getting called out, new wiki looks good!

New action items

• RW will look into blog post about FS use of Accept headers