Category: Data Migration
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How to Verify a Data Migration: Record Counts, Units, Coordinates and Exceptions
A successful import message confirms that a process finished; it does not establish that the resulting information is complete, correctly related or suitable for engineering use. Verification provides the evidence needed to answer those questions. For geotechnical data, that evidence must address both individual values and the context that gives them meaning. A borehole record…
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What Does Geotechnical Data Migration Cost? Scope, Timing and Deliverables
Geotechnical data migration cost is difficult to estimate from a project count alone. Ten consistent databases may require less investigation than one heavily customized archive with unclear field meanings and missing dependencies. A useful budget therefore starts with the work needed to preserve meaning, verify results and support the intended destination workflow. This guide explains…
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Why Legacy Geotechnical Data Is Becoming a Migration Risk
A geotechnical archive can look secure while becoming progressively harder to use. Project databases still exist, finished borehole logs are stored as PDFs, and an experienced team member knows where to find the original files. Yet none of those conditions guarantees that the information can be moved reliably into another system. Legacy geotechnical data migration…
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From gINT to WinLoG and GaeaSynergy: A Practical Migration Plan
A gINT migration plan should begin with the work your organization needs to continue: producing dependable borehole logs, finding historical information, checking test results, and delivering consistent project outputs. Moving records into a new database is one part of that work. Preserving their meaning and making the new workflow usable are equally important. For teams…
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What to Preserve When Migrating Historical Borehole Projects
Historical borehole projects are valuable because they connect observations to a particular place, depth, investigation, and method. When those projects move into a new system, preserving a list of boreholes and their final logs is only the beginning. The relationships and context behind the records determine how confidently the information can be reused. Migrating historical…
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AGS, DIGGS and Structured Data Exchange in Geotechnical Workflows
Geotechnical information often moves between field teams, laboratories, consultants, clients, and software platforms. When each handover uses a different spreadsheet layout or a report that must be re-entered, teams spend time reconstructing structure and checking meaning. Structured geotechnical data exchange gives that handover an agreed framework. AGS and DIGGS are two important approaches to exchanging…
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Introducing the GAEA Migration Center: A Practical Path from Legacy Geotechnical Data
For many geotechnical, environmental, geological, and infrastructure organizations, the challenge of modernizing software is not choosing a new system. It is deciding what to do with decades of existing data. Borehole logs, laboratory results, project databases, templates, geological descriptions, monitoring records, and historical investigations may be spread across legacy applications, local databases, spreadsheets, government systems,…