Successfully migrating digital collections: three institutions share their experiences of achieving their migration objectives

Whatever is driving your migration to a new digital collections platform, you are committing to a long-term investment that requires significant planning, resources and strategic buy-in. As such, it also demands a flexible, customer-led approach from your platform provider’s customer experience team.

We understand that the needs of your institution, team and your digitised (and yet-to-be digitised) materials are substantially different from those of the next institution, as are the profile and requirements of your user community.

Add in the nuances of migrating assets and metadata from different legacy platforms, both open source and proprietary, and you have a conclusive argument for more than a “one size fits all” migration approach.

Join this panel discussion to hear the experiences of Rice University, the University of Portland and Durham County Library, all of which have recently undertaken this transformative journey with AM Quartex. Each has migrated from different legacy systems, with both academic institutions successfully migrating and launching their digital collections in 2023, and the public library system currently on its journey to launching in 2024.

Discover the key ingredients that contributed to these successful migrations and how we flexed our approach to enable each of these partners to achieve their specific objectives.

Learn:

• what we believe contributes to a successful onboarding and migration journey,
• how these three institutions planned and executed their migrations,
• and how a collaborative and flexible mindset enabled (or is enabling) them to achieve project milestones and successfully migrate their digital collections.

Panel:

• Amanda Focke, Head of Special Collections, Fondren Library, Rice University
• Norie Guthrie, Archivist and Special Collections Librarian, Fondren Library, Rice University
• Philip Vue, Digital Services Librarian, Clark Library, University of Portland
• Lauren Panny, Head of the North Carolina Collection, Durham County Library
• Stephanie Barnwell, North Carolina Collection Relief Librarian, Durham County Library
• Anne-Marie Viola (Moderator), Customer Success Manager, AM Quartex

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