At 1:35 PM -0400 10/3/01, Marty wrote:
If other groups, such as AHGP, ALHN, etc., maintain their own
Currituck County sites, separate from mine and without open lines of
communication with me, then we risk duplicating efforts.
I don't see duplicating efforts as a "risk" myself. No two people
are going to produce exactly the same site for a given county, and
having more different sites, especially if they are cross-linked to
each other, makes for greater resources overall available to the end
user. I don't regard these other projects as competition for
USGenWeb, but simply as alternatives.
I think there's a greater risk that someone will lock up all the
projects for a particular county and then not do an adequate job of
providing information. It then becomes difficult for someone else to
create an alternative page that meets the needs of the end users,
except as a free-standing independent page which is unlikely to get
as much exposure as a site that's part of a national project.
If one person does do the same county for more than one project, then
I think each project deserves its own separate pages. Even if the
same information is present on all, each should have its own "look"
and only the one affiliation; i.e., we should maintain our identity
as NCGenWeb.
--
Elizabeth Harris
ncgen(a)mindspring.com
NCGenWeb project:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncgenweb/
Winston-Salem NC area genealogy:
http://users.erols.com/fmoran/