The migration and preservation of six Norwegian municipality record‐keeping systems: Lessons learned
研究了六个挪威市政记录保存数据库在迁移过程中遇到的挑战，包括文件格式异构、数据量、时间与数据库结构演变等问题，为组织进行类似迁移项目提供最佳实践参考。
Abstract This article presents a rare insight into the migration of municipality record‐keeping databases. The migration of a database for preservation purposes poses several challenges. In particular, our findings show that relevant issues are file‐format heterogeneity, collection volume, time and database structure evolution, and deviation from the governing standard. This article presents and discusses how such issues interfere with an organization's ability to undertake a migration, for preservation purposes, of records from a relational database. The case study at hand concerns six Norwegian municipality record‐keeping databases covering a period from 1999 to 2012. The findings are presented with a discussion on how these issues manifest themselves as a problem for long‐term preservation. The results discussed here may help an organization and Information Systems (IS) manager to establish a best practice when undertaking a migration project and enable them to avoid some of the pitfalls that were discovered during this project.