Timeline for Long-term archiving of MathOverflow
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| Sep 13, 2013 at 15:02 | comment | added | The Masked Avenger | MathOverflow is not a database. Nor is it a collection of PDFs. We could argue what MathOverflow is (or, to stick to this post, what an archive of it should be), but it might be better just to make a thing that serves many of the purposes of an archive instead. Scott Morrison's suggestion of a collection of PDFs seems good, but makes the assumption that PDF will be an available format long term. I do not make that assumption in the post above; I argue that more than one thing be created until we know what would make a really good archive, letting good be a guide towards perfect. | |
| Sep 13, 2013 at 11:12 | comment | added | François G. Dorais Mod | Why should such sociological commentary be part of the archive? There are already academics who study MO (in the sociological sense) and they publish their work in scholarly journals and books that are preserved on their own. There is no need to integrate that into MO. | |
| Sep 12, 2013 at 23:46 | comment | added | Kim Morrison Mod | I think you're letting perfect be the enemy of good. If someone want to do some serious "history" on MathOverflow, that's great, but no one here has the interest or ability to do it. I'm really only concerned with ensuring that a link in a paper to a MathOverflow question can be resolved (possibly 'by hand') to some version of the content, even assuming non-cooperation (or non-existence) of SE. It seems that archive.mathoverflow.net/question/1234, hosted by a university library, containing the 'last known' version of the page, rendered as PDF, would suffice. | |
| Sep 12, 2013 at 15:53 | history | answered | The Masked Avenger | CC BY-SA 3.0 |