keep calm and migrate: how to survive a digital content migration
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Keep Calm and Migrate: How to survive a digital content migration
Krystal Thomas@kmthomas / #PLANDC15
August 13, 2015PLAN Digitization Conference
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Migration is an Opportunity – use it!
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Digital Weeding – It’s a thing!
• You don’t have to take it all with you!– Duplicate objects– Incomplete objects– Poorly imaged or
described objects– Objects that belong in
a different digital repository
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So, Metadata…
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Prepping for Migration: 5 Step Summary
• Review your objects• Gather Information on past projects and
decisions• Track all your decisions• Make a plan for during migration• Make a plan for after migration
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The Actual Migration
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Lots and Lots and Lots of Surprises
• No matter how well you plan for it, migration have lots of surprises for you
• Check and double check and triple check
• It will be a long process and that is OK
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Don’t be afraid to change the plan!
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Life After Migration
• Give yourself multiple finish lines – you need to celebrate!
• Migration doesn’t mean new projects stop happening – this is a good thing!
• If the plan changed, document and keep moving forward
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Thank [email protected]: @kmthomas06
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