Your digital humanities site is a decade old. It was cutting-edge when it launched—custom-built to showcase a unique collection with features no off-the-shelf platform could provide. Now the security warnings are piling up, the original developers are long gone, and every Rails upgrade feels like defusing a bomb. You need to modernize. But here's what nobody tells you: for many legacy DH sites, "migration" is the wrong word entirely. What you actually need is a complete data