WordPress → AtoM
South African Jewish Museum
The Jewish Digital Archive Project at the South African Jewish Museum abandoned a bespoke WordPress site whose poor searchability and inconsistent metadata had undermined the collection, migrating the multimedia material into AtoM to restore professional archival standards. The work was carried out with the University of Cape Town's Five Hundred Year Archive team, and the move to AtoM restored proper hierarchical description and enabled multi-institutional search across partner collections. It is a valuable South African example — and a cautionary one about content-management systems as archival tools: website tags scale poorly, and mapping them into AtoM's hierarchical relationships is the core migration task.
Original source
Five Hundred Year Archive team and South African Jewish Museum
University of Cape Town (Archive & Public Culture)
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