Help Launch a Digital Preservation Q&A Site

[Trevor Owens]

Please consider taking a few minutes to help launch a Digital
Preservation Q&A site on Stack Exchange.

This site would potentially provide a common space for any number of
experts in both the national and international community to
collaboratively build a knowledge base around digital preservation.

Here are 3 things you can do that will only take a few minutes to help
get this idea off the ground.

1. Sign up and follow the proposal for the Digital Preservation Stack
Exchange Q&A site:
http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/39787/digital-preservation

You will see it defined as: "Proposed Q&A site for librarians,
archivists, curators, data managers, information specialists, computer
scientists and engineers and other professionals working to ensure
long term access to digital objects."

2. Vote for FIVE (5) of the suggested questions that you think are the
best questions. THIS PART IS VERY IMPORTANT.

To go past this initial definition phase of the Stack Exchange Q&A
site creation process, the Digital Preservation proposal needs to get
at least 40 questions which each have at least 10 votes. (So ideally,
vote for the best questions that do not already have 10 votes)

3. Add a few questions that you think serve as examples of the kinds
of questions you would like to have answered.

Your participation will help us build a valuable resource for sharing
knowledge about digital preservation.

Lastly, please feel free to forward this to any other organizations or
professional associations that might be interested in recruiting their
members to participate.

Best,
Trevor Owens
Instructor, Digital History, American University
Doctoral Student, George Mason University
Digital Archivist, NDIIPP

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2012-04-21