Timeline for Long-term archiving of MathOverflow
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| Sep 13, 2013 at 20:30 | comment | added | user9072 | @JoelDavidHamkins You are looking forward to this? Adding 900 items to a CV seems like an awful lot of busy-work to me! Good I am pseudonymous, also my 200 would be too much work. ;-) More seriosuly and generally, what I meant to convey is that also in some scientific evaluations having an ISSN can play a role (in general). What I could actually imagine is that overtime it becomes more common to see MO contrib as part of 'usual' (optional) scholarly activity. Say, like writing referee reports or perhaps closer reviewing for MathSciNet, which gets mentioned in a geenral/bulk form in some CVs. | |
| Sep 13, 2013 at 19:12 | comment | added | François G. Dorais Mod | @Joel: This may not be as far fetched as you think if you believe those who say that academic micropublishing is inevitable. | |
| Sep 13, 2013 at 16:03 | comment | added | Joel David Hamkins | @quid, in that case, I'm looking forward to adding some 900 new "publications" to my CV! And doesn't the voting mechanism count as referring? ;-) | |
| Sep 13, 2013 at 14:29 | comment | added | user9072 | @HenryCohn this might not (but perhaps eventually it might) be relevant for MO, but I do know that some 'activity reports' for researchers explicitly distinguish also between non-refereed contributions according to whether the thing where one contributed has an ISSN (or ISBN) or does not have. | |
| Sep 13, 2013 at 13:37 | comment | added | François G. Dorais Mod | Also, an ISSN seems to be a requirement for inclusion in some listings, such as the Keepers Registry from my other answer. | |
| Sep 13, 2013 at 13:10 | comment | added | François G. Dorais Mod | @Henry: My understanding (which is limited) is that librarians do classify serials with ISSNs differently. Though, I don't think it matters that much for practical purposes. My personal view is that an ISSN would "certify" that MathOverflow is not ephemeral and has lasting value. | |
| Sep 13, 2013 at 13:04 | comment | added | Henry Cohn | Would having an ISSN have beneficial consequences? They're particularly useful for serials with titles that are vague, ambiguous, or difficult to search for. However, I doubt it would ever be easier to look up MO via ISSN than via the name "mathoverflow". (On the other hand, maybe there would be other benefits. Do librarians take serials with ISSNs more seriously?) | |
| Sep 13, 2013 at 12:02 | history | answered | François G. DoraisMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |