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Content Platform Migrations </span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b>January 15, 2019 –
Baltimore, MD</b>. The National
Information Standards Organization (NISO) Voting Members have approved a new
project, <i>Recommended Practices Around Content Platform Migrations</i>, to
provide a standard process and recommendations to all parties dealing with
online content platforms, which would improve communication between
stakeholders before, during, and after migration. NISO is now forming a working
group; community members with experience in aspects of content migration are
invited to engage in the creation of this Recommended Practice to better guide
publishers, vendors, and libraries.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">“With so many publishers making their data available online,
the platform ’market’ is very active. Librarians have reported over 30 content
platform migrations from 2016 to the present,” says Athena Hoeppner, Discovery
Services Librarian at the University of Central Florida and a co-sponsor of the
NISO proposal. “Such migrations are happening more and more often, affecting
end-users, librarians, publishers and vendors and a problem-free migration is
the exception rather than the norm. We anticipate that the NISO working group,
with all stakeholders represented, will benefit from shared experiences and
input from the community.”</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">“A migration that is well-planned, communicated and
coordinated with customers and well-executed will deliver content on a new
platform with no broken links or loss of functionality, no interruption of
access and no loss of customer information,” adds Kimberly Steinle, Library
Relations Manager at Duke University Press and anther proposal co-sponsor.
“Migrations can be complex with many things to track, from customer holdings to
particularities of EZProxy and other authentication methodologies, to user
accounts and security settings. The deliverables from this working group will
raise awareness and fill gaps, creating smoother experiences for customers and
end users alike.” </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">NISO’s Associate Director of Programs, Nettie Lagace, notes,
“NISO is eager to begin this work to develop standard processes for those
responsible for handling and communicating specifics about upcoming platform
migrations. Just as NISO developed recommended practices for the handling of
transfers of journal titles between publishers, a set of guidelines and
checklists for how best to handle content migrations will be of enormous aid to
the various stakeholders. Just one example might be a checklist for actions
that librarians might want to handle before a transition – tasks like pulling
usage statistics from an old platform or entitlement information.” Those
interested in participating in the working group now being formed should
contact Lagace at <a href="mailto:nlagace@niso.org" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">nlagace@niso.org</a>. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b>About NISO<br>
</b>NISO, based in Baltimore, MD, 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 <a href="http://www.niso.org/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">NISO website</a>.</p>
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