Sharepoint Migration
Queens College
Queens College wanted to migrate their legacy website to a Sharepoint platform. Design firm Computer Generated Solution (CGS) brought me in to assist in defining the information architecture of the new site model.The Value Proposition
Challenges
CGS was charged with migrating exisiting content pages on the Queens College (QC) website to a Sharepoint platform. QC had already begun identifying the pages in the legacy site (See Excel spreadsheet). We needed to :
Map legacy content
Identify common content "types" across pages
Reconcile inconsistent display formats across silos of information
Provide a consistent navigational structure for multiple subsites
Solutions
- Identify common content "Webparts" across all pages.
- Capture collateral information in the Content Inventory spreadsheet (see image of Table).
- Formalize the IA and webpart structure into a set of Sharepoint templates (See image of page template) that reflected the existing content.