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From: "Don Kelly" <>
Subject: Re: [BOARD-L] New Business: Archives vs County Site as Data Repository
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 08:39:50 -0800
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Is it up to the CC/LC?

It's their data....their copyright.....their work.

Nice to have two locations (safety), but the owner should make that
decision.

This is really more of a copyright issue.

Don Kelly

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shari Handley" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 9:38 PM
Subject: [BOARD-L] New Business: Archives vs County Site as Data Repository


> While the vote on 05-03 is underway, I'd like to begin discussion on
> another of our unresolved agenda items.
>
> Over the years, there has sometimes been misunderstandings and
> disagreements regarding just where transcribed data - either transcribed
> by the CC (or LC) him- or herself, or submitted by a researcher - should
> reside. Should data be placed only in The USGenWeb Archives? Must data
> reside within the county site itself? Is it up to the CC/LC? The
> submitter?
>
> I would like to see the AB draft a basic policy statement to clear up
> misconceptions and to give our County and Local Coordinators as much
> freedom and choice as possible.
>
> The following is my opinion and, I believe, the opinion of many. The
> adoption of these statements, or something similar, as official USGenWeb
> policy would be fair to everyone involved, I think:
>
>
> 1. No state will require its CC/LCs to place data on the county/local
> site instead of the Archives.
>
> 2. No state will discourage its CC/LCs from placing data in the
> Archives.
>
> 3. No state will require its CC/LCs to place data in the Archives
> instead of the county/local site.
>
> 4. No state will discourage its CC/LCs from placing data within the
> structure of their county/local site.
>
> 5. First and foremost, the wishes of the submitter will be honored as to
> where the data they have provided will reside.
>
> 6. If the submitter IS the CC/LC, he or she may choose whether to house
> the data in the Archives, on their local site, or both.
>
> 7. If the submitter is a researcher (not the CC/LC), and the submitter
> has no preference one way or the other, the CC/LC may choose where to
> place the transcribed data.
>
> 8. Data that HAS been submitted to The USGenWeb Archives is subject to
> the policies of The USGenWeb Archives.
>
> For data that has NOT been submitted to The USGenWeb Archives:
>
> 9. Data transcribed and submitted by the CC/LC belongs to the CC/LC and
> may be removed from the county/local site if the CC/LC chooses to do so.
>
> 10. Data transcribed and submitted by researchers belongs with the
> county/local site and will remain with the county/local site even
> through a CC/LC change.
>
>
> What do you think about these statements? Do you agree? Is there
> anything you'd like to add or delete? What is fair to a) our
> submitters, b) our researchers, and c) our local coordinators?
>
> Shari
>
>
>
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