Managing Content Migration & Maintenance

University of Illinois Web Conference

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1. Tackling Content Migration & Maintenance Ron Bronson #uofiwebcon 2017
2. Most of the information that exists about content migration comes from consultants.
3. Defining Migration v. Maintenance
4. Content Migration: Conversion, reorganization and/or consolidation of existing content to new platform or infrastructure.
5. Content Maintenance: Processes and operations of existing web content infrastructure.
6. • Content inventory • Author Permissions Audit • Stakeholder Interviews • Taking stock of the information architecture • Eliminating Outdated Content Where Migration & Maintenance Intersect
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
8. What are your unique challenges to managing content & migration?
9. How to avoid the pitfalls of overly complicating things.
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.
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
12. Content Inventory
15. Web Governance is people being able to answer who can get things published on the institutional website.
16. Takeaways
17. Tusen Takk. ron@ronbronson.com work.ronbronson.com