At Drupal Camp Twin Cities 2011, I attended the session “Data Migration for Drupal 7,” by Ken Rickard of palantir.net. Ken is a core contributor, a co-author of the book Drupal 7 Module Development. He has worked on a number of important migration efforts, and is known as the migration expert at Palantir. This included some complicated migrations for ForeignAffairs.com and Grinnell College.

Here is the session description:

We’ll take an in-depth, technical look at the challenges of migrating external data into Drupal. Working from a live example, we'll use Drupal 7’s Migrate module to pull data into a Drupal site.

Here are my notes: