[DDI-users] New Q&A site dedicated to Library Sciences

Samuel Spencer sam at sqbl.org
Thu Jun 18 05:59:46 EDT 2015


Hi IASSISTers and DDIers,

Some StackExchange users are looking at launching a new Q&A site dedicated
to Library and Information Sciences.

For those unaware of StackExchange, it is a large platform dedicated to
building a community of Question & Answer (Q&A) sites for experts on very
specific topics. By Q&A site they focus on collecting a set of well defined
objective questions - although the definition of "objective" can vary
depending on the specific site. So far they have launched sites dedicated
to fields as diverse as programming, open data, academia and even cooking,
beer and coffee! **

The full list of sites is here: http://stackexchange.com/sites

However, of interest for this email is their "Area51" section where users
can propose new sites. Rather than launch a site and hope for users,
StackExchange has users define the scope of a site, prove there is an
audience through a limited beta and then launches. Recently, a user has
proposed a "Library and Information Sciences" site, which is still in
definition. In essence this means people can suggest questions that would
be "on-topic" for the site, if enough good questions are recommended, and
enough "potential users".

The link for the site is here: http://bit.ly/1G6co3Y

At the moment, you can suggest good questions for the site to help define
it, but can't answer yet.

Why is this of interest to IASSIST:
If we can help this site can go to "graduation" it will provide an
authoritative site for Library Science where experts and novices can ask
questions of the field on, what is in my opinion, an easy to use and
trusted framework for Q&As.

Cheers,
Sam Spencer
IASSIST Asia-Pacific Representative

** PS: For the curious here are some of the sites listed:
http://opendata.stackexchange.com/
http://academia.stackexchange.com/
http://coffee.stackexchange.com/
http://beer.stackexchange.com/
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