DRAFT Membership pitch

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DRAFT Membership pitch

Created by John Kunze on Nov 13, 2019

Become an AITO member for $X (or a contribution in kind) to support the following efforts:

**Outreach and Community Building
**[This was identified as highest priority in the survey.]

1. travel to speak at conferences, training events, eg, FSCI
2. design and creation of an arks.org brochure web site
3. creation and maintenance of

• ARKs FAQ
• wikipedia page
• slide decks and templates, eg, "Making the case for ARKs in your organization"
• tutorials and webinars
• training videos
• ARK "ads"

5. organizing conferences and workshops, eg, a second ARK Summit
6. increasing AITO capacity to do all of the above, less dependent on John

* possible membership benefit: access to core experts

**Technical Infrastructure
**[This was identified as a second priority, and the activities below tend to favor outreach. Priorities may change over time as adoption increases.]

1. NAAN registry
2. ARK standard
3. post-standard evolution organized under arks.org and github

• community metadata development
• harvesting to count and understand the global distribution of ARKs

5. work with strategic partners on grants to fund initial development of harvesting mechanism for counting ARKs

• next generation N2T resolver, given poorly understood but increasing reliance on N2T.net by non-CDL (non-EZID) users
• to develop an ARK management interface similar to EZID