# Identity Migration

> The activity of renaming an artifact and updating every reference to it in the same pass, so no reference is left dangling.

Record: `lexicon:identity-migration`
Kind: activity
Layer: [Structural Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/structural-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-identity-migration

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Vocabulary Admission](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/vocabulary-admission.md) and before [Shape-Discovered Surface](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/shape-discovered-surface.md).

## Category

- [Taxonomy / Classification / Naming](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/taxonomy-classification-naming.md)

## Required by

- [Manual Identity Migration](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/manual-identity-migration.md)

## Enabled by

- [Mirrored Test Placement](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/mirrored-test-placement.md)

## Linked from

- [Taxonomy / Classification / Naming](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-taxonomy-classification-naming.md)