Moving the Digital preservation questions from Stack Libraries Here

There are currently 44 digital preservation tagged questions on the libraries SE. Many of these were posted by folks who worked to get this site up and running. I think all of them are in scope and a better fit for this site. We have already seen some questions pop up here that have been asked and answered in that set of 44 questions and it would be great if those were showing up in our "questions that may already have your answer" list. So, do folks here think those questions should come over here? If so, does anybody know what process there is to bring them over.

Trevor Owens

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jcmeloni: Unless there's something technically barring this, it *should* just be a lot of mod migrations from there to here. You could have a chat with the Libraries mods and then flag those 44 for migration, so there's a record, but I'm sure that someone from the Community team has a better answer and will see this, since they pay close attention to new sites especially before pro tempore moderators are appointed.

Answer by Paul Wheatley

Definitely. Lets get them moved over. I think we need some admin help from LIS Stack to do this.

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Answer by Robert Cartaino

While it's technically possible to migrate questions, the migration paths are not set up until a site becomes well-established. But beyond that technical limitation, building this community from the old, pre-answered questions of another site would do this site a terrible disservice. That's not how you want to build this site.

Forget for a moment that other site may not want their content removed like that (along with the the knowledge and reputation earned). Consider that, from day one, your brand new site will be filled with old, pre-answered anonymous questions, as the original authors are off on another site. Your tags will be inherited from another site, regardless of how this community wants to organize content here. Comments would be largely meaningless and scattered with links to another site. Voting wont reflect the activity on this community, which makes it difficult to build an avid higher-reputation community to watch over this site — Vote Early, Vote Often.

The idea of creating a site dedicated to Digital Preservation is to build a community was supposedly not being well-served by another site. I wouldn't rush to simply migrate someone else's content content. Focus on building your own community. Give yourselves some time to figure out the scope and culture of this site. You should focus on building your own content with properly curated content, built with the community and expertise that genuinely belongs here.

That was the point of creating this site in the first place.

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jcmeloni: This is all absolutely True and Right. But I think that Trevor is pointing out something that may be a bit unusual in SE-land: at a glance, it appears there's a non-insignificant number of those DP questions at Libraries that were asked and answered by people who are *already participating in this private beta*; it wouldn't be a mass of anonymous users (I'd want to take a closer look at that, though). Not to put words in his mouth, but I think what happened is that the community around the DP questions there *is* this one, because they went there thinking that this site wouldn't get to beta.
jcmeloni: Which is to say, is there room for a little Community help & wiggle room in this regard, if the fledgling DP community gives some good arguments here in Meta?
Paul Wheatley: I agree with jcmeloni. There are lots of users from LIS Stack who were asking DP questions there who are now involved over here. In fact they are some of the most pro-active and committed DP Stack supporters as they helped get DP Stack into beta! This question was of course considered before, and the conclusion was not to wait but to start asking DP questions on LIS Stack.

Answer by mopennock

I had wondered this too. There's some really useful DP questions and answers over there, which lots of people now on this site contributed to. If we don't move them over, it's quite likely we'll see them being asked again. I wonder if people will spend the same time answering them (and therefore building rep here) if they have been done already.

Those questions would also give people a better idea of the type of question that's suitable here, especially as there's been quite a few 'off topic' questions asked already and closed. A list of too many closed or off topic questions might put other folk off. Having a more comprehensive set of answered and legitimate questions helps even things out.