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On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Owen Stephens <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Another option would be a 'code4lib Q&A' site. Becky Yoose set up one for > Coding/Cataloguing and so can comment on how much effort its been. In terms > of asking/answering questions the use is clearly low but I think the > content that is there is (generally) good quality and useful. > > I guess the hard part of any project like this is going to be building the > community around it. The first things that occur to me is how you encourage > people to ask the question on this new site, rather than via existing > methods and how do you build enough community activity around housekeeping > such as noting duplicate questions and merging/closing. The latter might be > a nice problem to have, but the former is where both the Library / LIS SE > and the Digital Preservation SE fell down, and libcatcode suffers the same > problem - just not enough activity to be a go-to destination. I would add that the Digital Preservation SE has been reinstantiated as Digital Preservation Q&A <http://qanda.digipres.org/>, which is organized and supported by the Open Planets Foundation and the National Digital Stewardship Alliance. Mark A. Matienzo <[log in to unmask]> Director of Technology, Digital Public Library of America