Do state documentation projects need to go through the Quilt Index to put their records online?
No, but we would urge states to consider working with the Quilt Index. The power of the Quilt Index is in providing access both to quilt documentation project and to groups of documentation together so that they can be linked and searched and cross-referenced with documentation from other places. Thus, the QI will be most useful to everyone if it can provide a searchable source to as many documentation records as possible. Moreover, building and testing a useable site is complicated and costly; we would hope that research and development costs of The Quilt Index won’t need to be replicated. Finally, the Quilt Index is built upon a repository and is housed at a major research university with high-level, redundant data back-up and preservation measures and an experienced, professional staff. Thus the Quilt Index can serve to preserve and protect the hard-earned quilt documentation information for years to come. If your collection or state documentation project is interested in joining th
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