Managing Content Migration & Maintenance

University of Illinois Web Conference

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1. Tackling Content Migration &
   Maintenance
   Ron Bronson
   #uofiwebcon 2017
   

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2. Most of the information that exists
   about content migration comes from
   consultants.
   

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3. Defining Migration v. Maintenance
   

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4. Content Migration:
   Conversion, reorganization and/or
   consolidation of existing content to
   new platform or infrastructure.
   

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5. Content Maintenance:
   Processes and operations of existing
   web content infrastructure.
   

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6. ● Content inventory
   ● Author Permissions Audit
   ● Stakeholder Interviews
   ● Taking stock of the information architecture
   ● Eliminating Outdated Content
   Where Migration & Maintenance Intersect
   

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7. ● Lack of expertise devoted exclusively to content.
   ● Too many moving parts.
   ● People lacking the authority to engage the people
   necessary to move the project forward.
   The Challenges of Managing Content
   

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8. What are your unique challenges to
   managing content & migration?
   

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9. How to avoid the pitfalls of overly
   complicating things.
   

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10. The fallacy of good experiences:
    Notion that people like engaging with
    our content/platforms and thus we
    should keep doing things the way
    we’ve always done them.
    

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11. ● Assess what the most important pieces are.
    ● Don’t try to tackle everything at once.
    ● Recognize your constraints
    ○ Institutional
    ○ Internal
    ○ Departmental
    ● Understand what matters
    ● Spare the details.
    Moving Migration Forward
    

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12. Content Inventory
    

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15. Web Governance is people being able
    to answer who can get things
    published on the institutional website.
    

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16. Takeaways
    

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17. Tusen Takk.
    ron@ronbronson.com
    work.ronbronson.com
    

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