At the recent Archiving 2013 conference (www.imaging.org/ist/) a presentation by colleagues from Portugal at KEEP SOLUTIONS and the Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Minho discussed guidelines for legacy repository migration.
I recommend their paper and guidelines / suggestions for anyone planning a large migration - their approach takes into account not only the technical export/import issues but also over programmatic issues and concerns, opportunities based on their years of work with migrating systems. Their guidelines are based on a combination of 13 existing methodologies that have been surveyed and unified into a comprehensive multistep methodology. See: http://www.keep.pt/servicos/migracao-de-dados/?lang=en Kari R. Smith, Digital Archivist MIT Libraries, Institute Archives and Special Collections 617-258-5568 | smithkr (at) mit.edu http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/ -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Williamson, Kelsey CTR NUWC NWPT Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 12:17 PM To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: [CODE4LIB] repository migration Good afternoon, I was hoping someone might be willing to talk about migration projects. I am getting ready to migrate records from an ePrints repository into a fedora repository- but I've never done anything like this before. I have an abstract plan, but I think hearing other people's experiences would be very helpful; particularly any lessons learned? Best regards, Kelsey
