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A variety of circumstances can impel you to migrate content from one CMS or platform to another. Mergers and acquisitions, the current platform becoming stale, and changing needs for dynamic content are just a few of the forces that can start you on the path to migration.
While there are a number of fairly standard, basic steps to follow in a migration process, it is important not to overlook the opportunity to enrich your content and make it more intelligent. In order to achieve intelligent customer experiences (ICX), you need structured content with appropriate metadata to make it easily consumable by machines as well as humans.
When approaching content migration, our instincts are often based on outdated circumstances and methods. The content landscape has radically changed over the past few years. Thus, it is shortsighted not to enrich our content, making it more intelligent, as we accomplish the migration process.
Here are the recommended steps for effective content migration, as well as the opportunities to enrich content and make it more effective. Main components of migration include:
Content Discovery & Analysis
Recommendation for Content-Type Definitions (structured content)
Recommendation for Information Architecture
The above are used as guides/requirements for the development
Content is built for high reusability throughout the system
Migration of content using automated features
When one simply looks at the statistics of how many words or assets need to be moved to a new content management system, the prospect of content migration may seem intimidating. However, there are many opportunities to make your content assets more findable and valuable with sensible steps that can be performed during the migration.
Yes, there is work involved. But as this article reveals, the effort is well worth it.
Whatever the cause or reason, there are a number of pitfalls to avoid. But, there is also a golden opportunity to enrich your content with intelligence and metadata during the migration and transformation process.
Working withstructure, semantics and metadata, our [A] team is able to substantially enrich your content in meaningful ways. In order for this to be effective, an analysis of your existing content methods must help establish an overall goal.
Read the [A] Guide to Content Migration: your doorway to Content Transformationwhitepaper, which goes more in-depth about this topic. The paper covers many relevant issues, including:
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