Just to show you how things are changing within the UsGenWeb Project and
individual states,
look at the county requirements.
A year ago UsGenWeb required counties to create and maintain query pages,
today, all that is required is that a county provide a link to an outside
query service. Hence UsGenWEb will eventually not have any query data. The
query board services will have all the data. This is a new reason that
researcher will not need to visit the counties. One less source of data to
provide the researchers. Is this what UsGenWeb really wanted to have
happen. Is UsGenWEb going to be the gatherer of the data for an outside
service?
If UsGenWEb is going to provide the sources (researchers) for the
GenConnect board data, then is seems to me that UsGenWEb is entitled to a
contract guaranteeing that that data belongs to (1) the submitter and (2)
the UsGenWeb Project. If we aren't going to do this, we need to think about
whether, if ever, that data can be sold by that outside service.
diane