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ARK Alliance Survey

The purpose of this survey is to help the ARK Alliance do an evaluation of ARK community interests, which will be used to help set our priorities.

1. Contact information. This will be kept confidential and used only for the purpose of clarifying or expanding on the survey responses you provide. *This question is required.

What is your name?

Name

What is your e-mail address? This question requires a valid email address.

E-mail

What is your organization?

Organization

2. Are you answering this survey on behalf of your organization or speaking only for yourself?

If you are not able to answer this survey on behalf of your organization, go ahead and complete the survey yourself, but also please forward the survey link to someone who can represent the views of the organization as a whole.

If you chose "Other", what type of organization do you represent?

5. Please estimate how many people in your organization (department/group/division) are interested in or already use ARKs? *This question is required.

6. Does your organization currently assign ARKs? *This question is required.

Since your organization doesn't currently assign ARKs, what is your interest in the ARK Alliance?

Does your organization run its own ARK resolver? *This question is required.

7. Is your organization currently a member of LYRASIS? *This question is required.

The ARK Alliance would like to ask current and potential ARK users for input on how we should target our efforts. From previous feedback, we identified the possibilities shown below. Please rank these in priority order (1=highest) from your perspective.

*This question is required. Note: for the following table each column is restricted to a single answer across all rows.

	1	2	3	4	5	6
Effort to promote ARK understanding and usage	Rank Effort to promote ARK understanding and usage as 1 out of 6	Rank Effort to promote ARK understanding and usage as 2 out of 6	Rank Effort to promote ARK understanding and usage as 3 out of 6	Rank Effort to promote ARK understanding and usage as 4 out of 6	Rank Effort to promote ARK understanding and usage as 5 out of 6	Rank Effort to promote ARK understanding and usage as 6 out of 6
Running a consortial ARK infrastructure based on open source ARK resolver and management software (similar to N2T.net, ezid.cdlib.org) on behalf of the ARK community	Rank Running a consortial ARK infrastructure based on open source ARK resolver and management software (similar to N2T.net, ezid.cdlib.org) on behalf of the ARK community as 1 out of 6	Rank Running a consortial ARK infrastructure based on open source ARK resolver and management software (similar to N2T.net, ezid.cdlib.org) on behalf of the ARK community as 2 out of 6	Rank Running a consortial ARK infrastructure based on open source ARK resolver and management software (similar to N2T.net, ezid.cdlib.org) on behalf of the ARK community as 3 out of 6	Rank Running a consortial ARK infrastructure based on open source ARK resolver and management software (similar to N2T.net, ezid.cdlib.org) on behalf of the ARK community as 4 out of 6	Rank Running a consortial ARK infrastructure based on open source ARK resolver and management software (similar to N2T.net, ezid.cdlib.org) on behalf of the ARK community as 5 out of 6	Rank Running a consortial ARK infrastructure based on open source ARK resolver and management software (similar to N2T.net, ezid.cdlib.org) on behalf of the ARK community as 6 out of 6
Open source development of ARK resolver software (next generation of NOID & N2T.net)	Rank Open source development of ARK resolver software (next generation of NOID & N2T.net) as 1 out of 6	Rank Open source development of ARK resolver software (next generation of NOID & N2T.net) as 2 out of 6	Rank Open source development of ARK resolver software (next generation of NOID & N2T.net) as 3 out of 6	Rank Open source development of ARK resolver software (next generation of NOID & N2T.net) as 4 out of 6	Rank Open source development of ARK resolver software (next generation of NOID & N2T.net) as 5 out of 6	Rank Open source development of ARK resolver software (next generation of NOID & N2T.net) as 6 out of 6
Effort to catalog what ARKs are being used to identify	Rank Effort to catalog what ARKs are being used to identify as 1 out of 6	Rank Effort to catalog what ARKs are being used to identify as 2 out of 6	Rank Effort to catalog what ARKs are being used to identify as 3 out of 6	Rank Effort to catalog what ARKs are being used to identify as 4 out of 6	Rank Effort to catalog what ARKs are being used to identify as 5 out of 6	Rank Effort to catalog what ARKs are being used to identify as 6 out of 6
Effort to coordinate the activities of the newly forming ARK community and provide policy, governance, sustainability and administrative support	Rank Effort to coordinate the activities of the newly forming ARK community and provide policy, governance, sustainability and administrative support as 1 out of 6	Rank Effort to coordinate the activities of the newly forming ARK community and provide policy, governance, sustainability and administrative support as 2 out of 6	Rank Effort to coordinate the activities of the newly forming ARK community and provide policy, governance, sustainability and administrative support as 3 out of 6	Rank Effort to coordinate the activities of the newly forming ARK community and provide policy, governance, sustainability and administrative support as 4 out of 6	Rank Effort to coordinate the activities of the newly forming ARK community and provide policy, governance, sustainability and administrative support as 5 out of 6	Rank Effort to coordinate the activities of the newly forming ARK community and provide policy, governance, sustainability and administrative support as 6 out of 6
Open source development of an ARK management application (similar to ezid.cdlib.org)	Rank Open source development of an ARK management application (similar to ezid.cdlib.org) as 1 out of 6	Rank Open source development of an ARK management application (similar to ezid.cdlib.org) as 2 out of 6	Rank Open source development of an ARK management application (similar to ezid.cdlib.org) as 3 out of 6	Rank Open source development of an ARK management application (similar to ezid.cdlib.org) as 4 out of 6	Rank Open source development of an ARK management application (similar to ezid.cdlib.org) as 5 out of 6	Rank Open source development of an ARK management application (similar to ezid.cdlib.org) as 6 out of 6

Of these choices, which ones would you (on behalf of your organization) be willing to contribute effort or funding to achieve?

	Would you contribute effort?	Would you contribute funding?
	Would you contribute effort?	Would you contribute funding?	Effort to coordinate the activities of the newly forming ARK community and provide policy, governance, sustainability and administrative support	Effort to coordinate the activities of the newly forming ARK community and provide policy, governance, sustainability and administrative support: Would you contribute effort?: Effort	Effort to coordinate the activities of the newly forming ARK community and provide policy, governance, sustainability and administrative support: Would you contribute funding?: Funding
Open source development of an ARK management application (similar to ezid.cdlib.org)	Open source development of an ARK management application (similar to ezid.cdlib.org): Would you contribute effort?: Effort	Open source development of an ARK management application (similar to ezid.cdlib.org): Would you contribute funding?: Funding
Running a consortial ARK infrastructure based on open source ARK resolver and management software (similar to N2T.net, ezid.cdlib.org) on behalf of the ARK community	Running a consortial ARK infrastructure based on open source ARK resolver and management software (similar to N2T.net, ezid.cdlib.org) on behalf of the ARK community: Would you contribute effort?: Effort	Running a consortial ARK infrastructure based on open source ARK resolver and management software (similar to N2T.net, ezid.cdlib.org) on behalf of the ARK community: Would you contribute funding?: Funding
Open source development of ARK resolver software (next generation of NOID & N2T.net)	Open source development of ARK resolver software (next generation of NOID & N2T.net): Would you contribute effort?: Effort	Open source development of ARK resolver software (next generation of NOID & N2T.net): Would you contribute funding?: Funding
Effort to promote ARK understanding and usage	Effort to promote ARK understanding and usage: Would you contribute effort?: Effort	Effort to promote ARK understanding and usage: Would you contribute funding?: Funding
Effort to catalog what ARKs are being used to identify	Effort to catalog what ARKs are being used to identify: Would you contribute effort?: Effort	Effort to catalog what ARKs are being used to identify: Would you contribute funding?: Funding

10. Is there an area not listed in the questions above that you feel it is important we focus our efforts towards?