Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to describe a state mandated merger of two institutional repositories from two separate campuses of a university into one new institutional repository. Due to a State Legislature mandate, the University of South Florida was required to merge institutional repositories from two campus into one new institutional repository.

Design/methodology/approach

USF Libraries formed a committee, planned for the migration and executed of the migration.

Findings

The authors discovered many unforeseen issues during the process of the migration such as difficulties with site redirects and hidden collections.

Originality/value

This project was a large-scale migration of institutional repositories, under a tight deadline due to a legislative mandate, that has not been discussed in detail in the literature.

中文翻译：

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迁移之夏：将机构知识库整合到一个重新设计的单一平台中

目的

本文的目的是描述国家强制将来自大学两个独立校区的两个机构知识库合并为一个新的机构知识库。由于州立法机构的授权，南佛罗里达大学被要求将两个校区的机构知识库合并到一个新的机构知识库中。

设计/方法/途径

USF 图书馆成立了一个委员会，计划迁移并执行迁移。

发现

作者在迁移过程中发现了许多无法预料的问题，例如站点重定向困难和隐藏集合。

原创性/价值

该项目是机构存储库的大规模迁移，由于立法授权，在紧迫的期限内，尚未在文献中详细讨论。