After my experiences with the Digital Preservation and LIS stack exchanges I am 
very wary of using them as a platform. I'd agree with others comments that they 
have far too puritanical and stringent requirements for the kinds of discussion 
people wanted to have. Beyond that, the kind of activity the stackexchange 
folks want to see on these boards to meet their needs was a good bit beyond 
what our communities were going to generate. 

On some of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance calls there has already 
been some preliminary discussions of standing up some kind of digital 
preservation discussion forms (likely running something like 
http://www.osqa.net or Vanilla). In a related sphere, digital humanities 
answers seems to have made a good run at this approach 
(http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/). If anybody is particularly interested 
in this, feel free to ping me off the list (t...@loc.gov) and I can make sure 
put you in the loop on discussion of setting up a digital 
preservation/stewardship online Q&A forum. 

-Trevor

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