This article presents a rare insight into the migration of municipality record‐keeping databases. The migration of a database for preservation purposes poses several challenges. In particular, our findings show that relevant issues are file‐format heterogeneity, collection volume, time and database structure evolution, and deviation from the governing standard. This article presents and discusses how such issues interfere with an organization's ability to undertake a migration, for preservation purposes, of records from a relational database. The case study at hand concerns six Norwegian municipality record‐keeping databases covering a period from 1999 to 2012. The findings are presented with a discussion on how these issues manifest themselves as a problem for long‐term preservation. The results discussed here may help an organization and Information Systems (IS) manager to establish a best practice when undertaking a migration project and enable them to avoid some of the pitfalls that were discovered during this project.

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六个挪威市政记录系统的迁移和保存：经验教训

本文提供了对市政记录数据库迁移的难得见识。为了保存目的而进行的数据库迁移带来了许多挑战。特别是，我们的发现表明，相关问题包括文件格式的异构性，收集量，时间和数据库结构的演变以及与管理标准的偏离。本文介绍并讨论了此类问题如何干扰组织为保存关系数据库中的记录而进行的迁移（出于保存目的）的能力。当前的案例研究涉及六个挪威市政记录数据库，涵盖了从1999年到2012年的一段时间。研究结果与这些问题如何表现为长期保存问题有关，并进行了讨论。