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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