Ministry for Culture & Heritage Upgrades NZ History Website to Drupal 10

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Catalyst has supported Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture & Heritage (MCH) in upgrading the NZ History website from Drupal 7 to Drupal 10 before the platform reached end-of-life. The upgrade addressed the site’s outdated infrastructure, transitioning it to a modern operating system hosted on Catalyst Cloud to ensure data sovereignty under New Zealand law. The project involved restructuring approximately 41,000 content nodes and 37,000 media items, aligning data structures for consistency and streamlining content management through Drupal’s media library. Using GitLab, the teams introduced continuous integration pipelines, automated deployments, and improved record-keeping and collaboration practices. The result was a sustainable setup with reduced custom code, enhanced site performance, improved workflows, and shared knowledge to guide future site improvements.

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Title

Bringing NZ history into the future with Drupal 10

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Date of Publication

14 February 2025

Organization

Catalyst IT

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Drupal 10

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