2022-04-18 - Data Migration Subgroup Agenda and Notes

Carol from Texas State.

General overview of how UnivChicago’s data migration went. General issues found afterward. Wrote to database for faster throughput, but had to duplicate/backwards engineer business logic. Advises to go through apis. Stanford is doing self-migration, has 3 devs working on it, for 3+ months and counting.

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WOLFcon session for Data Migration?

What kind of session would we want?  Patty offered to host if we do a panel.  

From last meeting:

We discussed possible ways to present data migration issues to attendees at the next WolfCon. I thought I would list them here, and give our Slack readers an opportunity to comment or to raise ideas for new topics. WolfCon will be held from Aug. 31 to Sept. 2 in Hamburg. To include the widest possible audience,  we thought that it would be wise to have a mixture both of on-line and in-person presentations, where the on-line presentations could be given in small rooms (readily available), but aimed primarily at an on-line audience. Perhaps all of these topics, with the exception of the workshop, could be aimed at an on-line audience.Here are the topics that we came up with:

• Introduction to data migration. This would provide an overview of the process of migrating legacy data to Folio. It would include discussion of the different approaches institutions can use to migrate their data, and of the range of issues they will need to consider in developing a migration strategy, what people should be involved and how long it will take.
• Lessons learned in data migration. A panel of individuals from different institutions who have completed their move to Folio will discuss how they accomplished their data migration, what problems they encountered, and how they resolved them. Ideally, a diverse set of institutions should be represented to speak to the diversity of the institutions that may be considering Folio.
• Data migration workshop. We will conduct a workshop to give attendees a hands-on experience of how to migrate a delimited set of legacy data. Both the technical and conceptual frameworks motivating a particular migration strategy will be explored.
• Data migration tools. Theodor Tolstoy will  give a presentation on the suite of tools that he has developed to help institutions migrate their data.
• Data migration tools. Ian Walls will likewise give a presentation on the tools that he is currently developing to assist institutions with migrating their legacy data.