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Managing Content Migration & Maintenance

Managing Content Migration & Maintenance

University of Illinois Web Conference

Ron Bronson

April 06, 2017
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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    ● Eliminating Outdated Content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.
    [email protected]
    work.ronbronson.com

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