The Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium focuses on Institutional Repository (IR) management, curation, and promotion in a health sciences environment. MIRL is a platform-neutral conference. The goal of MIRL is to gather together IR practitioners and those with an interest in IRs at hospitals, academic medical centers, and other health settings for discussions and sharing of case studies and best practices for digital archiving of institutional content.
The content below has been collected from past symposia to reflect the knowledge available on the topic of data migration, typically from one IR platform to another.
Events from 2025
Crosswalk that Talk: Migrating Interview Collections Using Existing Metadata, Jose J. Garza
Events from 2022
Moving Metadata and Medicine: Migrating a Nursing History Photograph Collection to Digital Commons, Maureen Cech
Making Cancer History Online: The OpenWorks @ MD Anderson Legacy Page, Jose Javier Garza
From Digital Commons to Alma/Primo: Expanding Readership for Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects, Sara Hoover
Hyku: Collaboration and Commitment in an Open Source Data Repository, Kevin Kochanski
CU Anschutz Digital Collections Migration: From DSpace to Hyku, Raven Morrigan
A Tale of Two Migrations: A Medical Library Case Report, Lisa Palmer, Tess Grynoch, and Sally Gore
Cheese in the Maze: Navigating Administrative Processes for a Digital Collection Migration, Pamela Pierce and Tracy Thornton
Events from 2021
Re-envisioning the Virginia Journal of Public Health: Leveraging the Institutional Repository for Publishing Success, Mark Lane, Maria DeValpine, Rebecca Kruse, and Carolyn Schubert
Undertaking a Digital Collection Platform Evaluation at a Health Sciences Library, Pamela Pierce, Steve Duckworth, and Marijane White
‘Open-ish Access’ and Collaborative Solutions for Sensitive Information: the University of New Mexico’s Native Health Database, Jonathan Pringle
