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标题：Three Approaches to Documenting Database Migrations
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作者：Andrea K. Thomer ; Alexandria Jane Rayburn ; Allison R. B. Tyler 等
期刊名称：International Journal of Digital Curation
印刷版ISSN：1746-8256
出版年度：2020
页码：5-9
DOI：10.2218/ijdc.v15i1.726
出版社：University of Edinburgh
摘要：Database migration is a crucial aspect of digital collections management, yet there are few best practices to guide practitioners in this work. There is also limited research on the patterns of use and processes motivating database migrations. In the “Migrating Research Data Collections” project, we are developing these best practices through a multi-case study of database and digital collections migration. We find that a first and fundamental problem faced by collection staff is a sheer lack of documentation about past database migrations. We contribute a discussion of ways information professionals can reconstruct missing documentation, and some three approaches that others might take for documenting migrations going forward. [This paper is a conference pre-print presented at IDCC 2020 after lightweight peer review.]