Got an eBCS Newsletter this morning that interested me, pointing me to www.datamigrationpro.com. It's a web-site dedicated to professionals (within and without the IT industry) who work with Data Migration. Seems a really good resource for best practice, experience and opportunities.

We all have to deal with data migration issues at some point. At the moment, I am working with some data that is 25 years old and is now in its third IT system, so the standard of data both in terms of input-quality and post-processing quality can be quite poor. My job is to develop a system that allows users to manage this data, but which, either silently or otherwise, corrects the data.

Of immediate interest to me was this article: 6 Misconceptions about Data Migration by Norma L. Davis http://www.datamigrationpro.com/?page=articles_norma_six

And she's right.

Read the complete post at http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/program.x/archive/2008/03/14/data-migration-gets-it-s-own-site.aspx