**with apologies for cross-posting**

 

Dear All,

 

The Digital Preservation Coalition invites Members and the wider community to join us for So Long, and Thanks for All the Bits: Migrating Your Data Between Repositories on 3 July in York. This briefing day explores the journey of migrating content to a new preservation repository system – from choosing an application with a robust exit strategy to extracting valuable data from legacy systems. The day will feature speakers from various institutions, as well as demonstrations by a selection of repository vendors. In the afternoon, participants will join in a workshop session to explore and exchange approaches with other practitioners. 

 

This event will explore a number of perspectives on the repository migration problem. We'll learn from those with experience of performing significant migrations. We'll engage with our repository vendors, discuss our requirements and consider how repository applications can best meet them. We'll sound out different approaches to getting important data out of legacy repositories and management systems. And we'll examine what we need to do across the lifecycle of a repository to ease the transition during its last days. This topic touches on technology, metadata, standards, process, and perhaps most importantly, how our staff negotiate this potential minefield of repository transition.

 

The briefing day is expected to be popular and limited seats are available. Please register as soon as possible to reserve a place: https://bit.ly/2GHpzz6.

 

All the best,

Sara

 

 

Sara Day Thomson

Research Officer

Research & Practice

Digital Preservation Coalition

 

T: +44 (0)141 330 6337

W: dpconline.org

Tw: @sdaythomson

 

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