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Formtek Provides Data Migration Services to NASA JPL
December 9, 2021
Walnut Creek, California USA — Formtek, Inc. has received a second Subcontract for consulting
services from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). This latest Subcontract, issued in August 2021,
is a follow-on to a JPL Subcontract awarded to Formtek in 2018, and continues Formtek’s work with
JPL to migrate very large data libraries from a legacy content management system to a new system
based on Alfresco® Content Services.
JPL’s legacy Electronic Library Service (ELS) platform utilizes Xerox® DocuShare® systems in support
of the requirement to archive, store, and retrieve mission critical program information. The ELS is
comprised of approximately four hundred (400) libraries distributed amongst eleven (11) DocuShare
instances. JPL is planning to migrate, over time, all of the data from the legacy systems to Alfresco.
Formtek was chosen to provide consulting services to assist JPL’s team with the migration.
Under the previous Subcontract, Formtek provided detailed analysis of JPL’s DocuShare and Alfresco
systems and migration requirements, and performed initial migration script design and development.
Under the current Subcontract, Formtek is enhancing and extending the capabilities of the migration
script to include non-standard and custom object types, including URL objects, email messages and
attachments, compound objects, Interact pages, and complex linking and mirrored object references.
Formtek will also develop a delta script to enable library migrations to be performed with minimal
downtime for end users, and a validation script to ensure the integrity of the migrated data by
comparing the data from each DocuShare library with the data stored in Alfresco after the migration.
Upon completion of migration script development and testing, Formtek will conduct data migration of
production libraries based on a JPL-provided schedule, and perform testing and validation of the
migrated libraries. The initial forty-eight (48) libraries to be migrated contain nearly three million files
and approximately nineteen (19) terabytes of data in total.
The current Subcontract continues through September 30, 2022.
