Conversion would imply changing the actual format of the file, i.e. converting a word document to a PDF.
 
Migration, in my opinion, suggests change as well, in that a document may be migrated from, say, Word 2003 to Word 2007.
 
At least, that's what I've always understood the two terms to mean.
 
Tim Hunt, MAS, ECMS
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RCMP "E" Division
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>>> "Julie J. Colgan" <[log in to unmask]> 2011-05-25 14:48 >>>
"Conversion", to me, implies change while "migration" implies movement but not necessarily change.

For example, I would convert a Word doc to a PDF, I wouldn't migrate a Word doc to a PDF.  I would migrate records from one storage platform to another, but I wouldn't convert them to another storage (unless conversion was required to meet the needs of the system I migrated to!).

Just my 2 cents :)


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