The most obvious objection to this line of thinking is the *county archivist*
loses control of their archives. Change to this format, and the county
archivists will flee in droves.
This is control from the top. The county archivists are not interested in
playing this game. The files belong to the usgenweb/state/county.
The new census group is out of line to the rest of the archives umbrella.
Polly, Kentucky Archives Assistant Coordinator
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>>>>>Ron Reason wrote:
But look at this and I
solicit each and everyone of you to tell me why this
can't be so.
1. The USGenWeb Digital Library home page, which would be more or
less a link to and information page should be as such:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/
2. The USGenWeb Archives Project, would have it's pages as maintained
by Linda Lewis, here:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/archives/
3. The USGenWeb Census Project, would have the pages as maintained
by Kay Mason, here:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/census/
4. The USGenWeb Tombstone Project, would have it's pages here:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tombstone/
5. The USGenWeb Pension Project, would have it's pages here:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pension/
Each of these is under the USGW umbrella as well as the "Digital Library"
umbrella, BUT still separate. Their access can be made so that each
Projects FM's can maintain their own work. And there doesn't need to be
access by other Projects.
Now there will be arguments, as there already have been by Linda and others
that the Archives has it's policies and they are set in stone. But that is
just like our projects, it's history and doesn't have to be so today. In
this directory system, the Search Engine should work just fine, despite what
some may say. And also, despite what some think, the Archives Project
doesn't have to be the "Mother Ship" to these other Projects. If they
want,
as the TS Project has chosen, then the Archives FM's can do the FM work for
them. But if the SP's chose not to, then they should not have to. I agree
there should be a logical directory structure, but I disagree as have others
that just because it doesn't follow the archives example, that it won't
work.
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