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Welcome to the Contributor Resource Page, where we post materials for individuals or organizations that have individual quilt records entered into the Quilt Index! You can view all current contributors here: Contributor Page

New KORA Self-Guided Tutorial

Click the link below to download a PDF version of the self-guided tutorial for contributors who are adding or editing records using our online quilt record database, KORA.

Media:QuiltIndexNEWKORATutorial.pdf

FAQs and Resources for All Types of Contributors

Essay, Gallery and Lesson Plan Authors

For authors of content under our IMLS grant.

Collection Contributors

For contributors of collections of quilts submitted by museums, libraries, documentation projects, or formal collections applications
You can find the Quilt Index New Contributor Application form (for formal collections applications) here: http://www.quiltindex.org/docs/application_Feb2008.pdf

Public Submissions

Individual contributors, such as Signature Quilt Pilot Project participants

Glossary of Quilt Index and KORA Terms

KORA

The Quilt Index operates through MATRIX’s digital library repository, called KORA (http://www.matrix.msu.edu). This digital library management system is, in essence, a very large database. KORA works best with the Firefox browser, for both PC and Mac users. You can download Firefox at: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/.

contributor

Contributors are organizations that hold quilt collections or quilt documentation surveys. Potential contributors apply to the Quilt Index, and if accepted, either hand-enter their quilt records into KORA or work with the Quilt Index staff to ingest a pre-existing computer database into the Index. Each contributor's records reflect the information gathered and maintained by their organization. For a list of current contributors, see http://www.quiltindex.org/contributors.php.

comprehensive fields

The Quilt Index Comprehensive Fields document contains an inclusive set of descriptive fields that contain necessary information and controlled vocabularies specific to quilt research and study. These terms were developed initially by Michigan State University Museum using quilt documentation forms from pilot sites as well as broader input from many other quilt documentation projects throughout the world. The Comprehensive Fields are formulated as a metadata schema and delivered through the information architecture of MSU's KORA Repository.

core fields

The core fields were those fields that were most used by contributors. In the previous version of KORA, these fields were highlighted in green. We are not differentiating the core fields from the rest of the fields in the new version of KORA.

scheme

The Quilt Index system in KORA has entry forms (called schemes) for entering and managing quilt data records.

ingest

Contributors have password-protected web pages to access their own records, which they use to enter (ingest), edit and verify data and to upload images.

upload

To upload an image means to add an image to a record without an image. You can also remove uploaded images and add new ones. This process is very similar to attaching an image or document to an email message.

preset

Records can be created with preset values for repeated, identical fields such as organization, copyright, etc. You may create preset records for specific fields, or specific subsets of quilts and then use that "preset" and the preset information will automatically appear at first in the new entry form. Thus the data entry people do not need to type that information every time.

field code

In ‘Ingest Record’ mode in KORA, each field has three basic components. One is the field code, for example “InstNameF003.” It appears on the left-hand side of the interface in bold type.

field

A field is simply an individual item within the comprehensive fields. For example, the first field is InstNameF003, 'Contributing Institution Name'.

kid#

The kid# is the unique identifier number. Each record has its own kid#. The identifier is always listed at the top of the record. It is greenish-brown and underlined, like this: 4-15-2.