[Eril-l] NISO Announces Publication of its New Recommended Practice for Content Platform Migrations

[NISO Announce]

**Apologies for cross posting**

*Baltimore, November 22, 2021:* The National Information Standards
Organization (NISO) today announced the publication of its Recommended
Practice, NISO RP-38-2021, Content Platform Migrations, which provides
guidance to improve processes and communication between all parties, with
suggested steps involved before, during, and after the migration of content
from one platform to another.

Content platforms, either developed by publishers themselves, or licensed
from platform vendors, enable libraries and their patrons to access and
interact with scholarly content. Every year, for a variety of reasons,
publishers move their content from one platform to another. Making
migrations as smooth as possible — with no broken links, loss of
functionality, interruptions in access, or loss of customer information —
significantly benefits librarians, publishers, service providers, and users
alike. This new Recommended Practice, developed by the librarians,
publishers, and content platform providers on the Content Platform
Migrations Working Group, intends to streamline the process and clarify the
communications needed to ensure seamless transitions. The final version
incorporates feedback received from the wider community during the public
comment period earlier this year.

“The Content Platform Migrations Recommended Practice is a true community
effort to ensure that migrations between platforms are as smooth as
possible,” said Working Group Co-Chair Athena Hoeppner of the University of
Central Florida. “It incorporates the views of all the key stakeholder
groups involved in the process — libraries, publishers, service providers,
and especially users. Project participants agreed that improved
communication between parties, to best support a user’s journey to content,
was the ultimate goal of their work.”

“Athena, I, and the whole Working Group are delighted that this Recommended
Practice is now published and available for those involved in content
platform migrations,” added Co-Chair Kim Steinle of Duke University Press.
“As content migration projects track many actions, timelines, and parties,
the Recommendations could be applied differently depending on the specific
content migration. All recommendations presented in the document will
provide a complete understanding of the suggested actions, and we’ve also
included customizable tools to help adapt the Recommendations to specific
projects.”

“We are so grateful to Athena, Kim, and everyone in the Content Migrations
Working Group for all their hard work on these recommendations,” said Todd
Carpenter, NISO’s Executive Director. “As a result of their efforts, the
information community can help ensure that the process for migrating
content from one platform to another is more streamlined and effective for
all concerned, and that user access to content through various tools and
services is uninterrupted.”

The published version of the Recommended Practice for Content Platform
Migrations is available on the NISO website at:
https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/content-platform-migrations

*About NISO*
Based in Baltimore, MD, NISO fosters the development and maintenance of
standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, and
effective interchange of information so that it can be trusted for use in
research and learning. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages libraries,
publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support
learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization,
management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting
communities of interest and across the entire lifecycle of information
standards. NISO is a not-for-profit association accredited by the American
National Standards Institute (ANSI). For more information, visit the NISO
website (https://niso.org) or contact us at nisohq at niso.org.
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