Soedring, Thomas and Borlund, Pia and Helfert, Markus (2021) The migration and preservation of six Norwegian municipality record‐keeping systems: Lessons learned. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 72 (6). pp. 699-709. ISSN 2330-1635

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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.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Cite as: Soedring, T., Borlund, P. & Helfert, M. 2021, "The migration and preservation of six Norwegian municipality record‐keeping systems: Lessons learned", Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol. 72, no. 6, pp. 699-709.
Keywords:	Best practice; Heterogeneity; Information management; Information systems; Relational data bases;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > Innovation Value Institute, IVI Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Business
Item ID:	17852
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24438
Depositing User:	Markus Helfert
Date Deposited:	16 Nov 2023 14:42
Journal or Publication Title:	Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
Publisher:	John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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