Lotus Notes Database FAQ
Summary
As companies reduce their Domino footprint or transition away from the Notes/Domino platform, these professionals may find themselves tasked with the responsibility of ensuring that critical business data is not lost or compromised. Lotus Notes databases, on the other hand, are based on a document-centric data model in which each document contains all the information related to a single record. These elements require additional effort to ensure that the exported data maintains its structure and integrity when transferred to another database system. This should be fairly straightforward: Open the Lotus Notes client, select a view, choose File > Export, save as a Comma Separated Value (CSV), and you’re all set. Simply exporting Lotus Notes data to CSV will almost certainly result in the loss of some information, such as rich text, images, tables, file attachments, document links and relationships, field groupings, and certain metadata.