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- Successful migration from to Islandora8 deployed in production environment (Lyrasis)
- Thorough documentation of all aspects of the migration. (Whitman)
- Use the Isle project as the vehicle for deployment (Born Digital)
- Theme development to support successful deployment of newspaper repos (Born Digital)
- Ideally fully migrate to Islandora 8 with standard newspapers and oral histories themes. (Whitman)
- Clarify what components/features will be delayed (if anyone) (Whitman)
- Minimize bespoke development
We should go through the gaps analysis with a fine-toothed comb in order to make sure that everything that is a hard requirement is on the development schedule.
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We should have a plan for a "content freeze" in order to allow for an orderly migration.
Question: are we interested in bringing over metadata revision history along in the migration?
Whitman: probably not - that is less important than making sure that everything that is working for us in 7 continues to work in 8?
Funders are concerned fundamentally with successful migrations of the data from one version of the user facing software to the next. Not so much having a "complete" (read versions included) migration of Fedora.