>From: "Connie Burkett" >To: "Tim Stowell > "Maggie Stewart > "Ron Eason > "John C. Jacoby >Subject: [Census-Discuss] Followup >Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 17:34:46 -0400 > >Hello all, > >John: Where the files are currently uploaded is the crux of this >committee. The Census Project File Managers upload all census files into >the subdirectory structure, ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/CENSUS/ST/COUNTY/YEAR/ > >In some cases the County webpages link to the files in the above >"pub/census" structure, and in other cases, someone copies the census files >to ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/USGENWEB/ST/COUNTY/CENSUS/YEAR/ (therefore we do >have a duplication of those copied files and add to the amount of server >space required for storing the duplicated files). > >Originally the census files were uploaded to the pub/usgenweb structure. >Some of the problems involved were after the census files where uploaded by >the Census Project File Manager, the files would be renamed and/or moved to >another location within the same structure by the State File Managers. In a >few cases, the information inside the census files was changed. When the >amount of problems involved got to the point that Kay felt it was >uncontrollable, Kay had the files moved to the current pub/census structure, >(during the 4th quarter of 1998). > >And there was always the feeling that when the census files were uploaded by >the Census Project File Manager, they were invading the territory of the >State File Managers. Even Maggie attested to that in one of her emails to >this committee when she stated that she does not upload into the counties, >she forwards the formatted files to the State File Manager, and that person >uploads to the state/county area. Before the census files were moved (by >Kay) to their current location, forwarding the census files to the State >File Managers was tried and it simply did not work. > >Sometime during the 2nd quarter of this year, after some head-clashing >between Kay and Linda Lewis, another Census Project was started (named the >USGW "Archives" Census Project). So now we have two separate Census >Projects each with their own State Assignment Coordinators assigning census >transcribers. > >= ~ = ~ = ~ = ~ = ~ = ~= ~ = ~ = ~= ~ = ~ = ~= ~ = ~ = ~= ~ = ~ = ~= ~ = ~ = >~= ~ = ~ = ~ > >As it stands now, we have the census files located in a subdirectory >structure where they are not included in the "Archive" search engine, (with >most of those files being duplicated in the "archives" subdirectory >structure), and we have two separate Census Projects with both assigning >census transcriptions to volunteers. > >Is there an easy solution? Or any solution for that matter? > >Can the search engines be made to include the pub/census structure by >starting the search at the pub/ level? >Or can the census files remain where they are and somehow be made to appear >that they are within the pub/usgenweb structure? > >Connie > > > >