Timeline for Long-term archiving of MathOverflow
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| Jul 31, 2023 at 11:59 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @GeorgesElencwajg I am not sure if your comment about the NSA was meant as a serious suggestion, but assuming it was, the answer is no. Without going into too much detail, the short version is that this sort of archival project is highly vulnerable to budget cuts. | |
| Feb 1, 2014 at 20:42 | history | edited | François G. DoraisMod |
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| Sep 28, 2013 at 11:41 | history | edited | François G. DoraisMod |
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| Sep 15, 2013 at 18:26 | comment | added | François G. Dorais Mod | @ScottMorrison: Sensible margins can be specified using CSS media types: w3schools.com/css/css_mediatypes.asp | |
| Sep 15, 2013 at 18:04 | history | edited | François G. DoraisMod |
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| Sep 15, 2013 at 17:52 | answer | added | François G. DoraisMod | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 15, 2013 at 0:50 | comment | added | Kim Morrison Mod | Yes, I'm convinced that PDF isn't a great idea. It's perhaps more convenient right now in some ways (some people are going to be more comfortable reading or printing PDFs which already have sensible margins, for example) but should be at most secondary to plain text, which is more likely to be useful in 10 years. | |
| Sep 13, 2013 at 20:26 | comment | added | Georges Elencwajg | Can't we trust the NSA to keep archives? | |
| Sep 13, 2013 at 15:18 | answer | added | François G. DoraisMod | timeline score: 16 | |
| Sep 13, 2013 at 13:36 | answer | added | François G. DoraisMod | timeline score: 8 | |
| Sep 13, 2013 at 12:02 | answer | added | François G. DoraisMod | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 13, 2013 at 11:27 | history | edited | François G. DoraisMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
The MO domain was transferred a while ago
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| Sep 13, 2013 at 10:52 | comment | added | François G. Dorais Mod | Why PDF? It's so bloated compared to markdown (the format that MO posts are currently in) and I don't see any additional convenience. | |
| Sep 12, 2013 at 15:53 | answer | added | The Masked Avenger | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 12, 2013 at 9:04 | comment | added | Zsbán Ambrus | Related question: meta.mathoverflow.net/questions/129 Public dumps for mathoverflow? | |
| Sep 12, 2013 at 3:59 | comment | added | Kim Morrison Mod | Librarians are such nice people. Mine says we should talk. | |
| Sep 12, 2013 at 3:27 | comment | added | Kim Morrison Mod | Does anyone know who the relevant people at the AMS would be? DSpace seems fantastic, and explicitly set up for creating new "collections". | |
| Sep 12, 2013 at 2:52 | comment | added | Tom Leinster | Might the AMS take an interest? Even if they don't want to be directly involved in archiving, perhaps they have people with the right kind of expertise to advise. | |
| Sep 12, 2013 at 2:27 | comment | added | Henry Cohn | What I'd recommend is getting in touch with the Internet Archive, and also looking into a few universities with repositories based on DSpace or the like (e.g., dspace.mit.edu). These repositories are often focused on work with some connection to the university, but they might make an exception for something of broad interest like MO. The home universities of moderators or MO board members might have a particularly compelling reason to view archiving MO as part of their mission, but my guess is that it wouldn't be hard to get universities to do this. | |
| Sep 12, 2013 at 2:12 | comment | added | Henry Cohn | I don't think the arXiv would make sense. MO is way outside of the arXiv's mission, I don't think a periodically updated 100+ megabyte document would be a good fit, and there are serious format issues. (A PDF snapshot couldn't hurt as supplementary information, but it shouldn't be the primary format for backups.) On the other hand, the Internet Archive and academic libraries would both be great solutions. | |
| Sep 12, 2013 at 1:25 | comment | added | Andrés E. Caicedo | Copies could be sent periodically to math departments (there is usually at least a library liaison). This could probably be done automatically, and universities that express interest could be added to the list. | |
| Sep 12, 2013 at 1:17 | history | asked | Kim MorrisonMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |