diff --git a/backend/layers/processing/schema_migration.py b/backend/layers/processing/schema_migration.py
index fb279464c3a41..355f9d4173bf3 100644
--- a/backend/layers/processing/schema_migration.py
+++ b/backend/layers/processing/schema_migration.py
@@ -62,11 +62,33 @@ def gather_collections(self, auto_publish: bool) -> List[Dict[str, str]]:
 
         has_revision = set()
         # iterates over unpublished collections first, so published versions are skipped if there is an active revision
+
+        # temp: filter for Collections containing visium and slide-seq-v2 datasets
+        COLLECTIONS = [
+            "e68d20e4-5c51-4f6c-b599-30a08858c5ce",
+            "1dbbd47f-80be-4048-8516-c9fa50cb4890",
+            "d1c3e6e4-950e-4a5f-83b4-8de13153299a",
+            "362505ba-aff6-4589-a407-667a9e18bf8a",
+            "8dac14c9-e100-45c7-8ace-051ac2b7737a",
+            "19b54e58-8e71-497b-ad03-aa9a6ca52ce0",
+            "8fcfd5ec-e671-4836-9a96-52110e11db32",
+            "790b6cbd-2cec-4782-8173-08d53e6afc43",
+            "e0612e2e-0867-4773-bff9-b5e08b2a77e7",
+            "d74b6979-efba-47cd-990a-9d80ccf29055",
+            "02b01703-bf1b-48de-b99a-23bef8cccc81",
+            "8e880741-bf9a-4c8e-9227-934204631d2a",
+            "a96133de-e951-4e2d-ace6-59db8b3bfb1d",
+            "21bbfaec-6958-46bc-b1cd-1535752f6304",
+            "2d69ef57-864d-4f58-93f5-4fbd6fab06a6",
+            "7c1fbbae-5f69-4e3e-950d-d819466aecb2",
+            "0aab20b3-c30c-4606-bd2e-d20dae739c45",
+        ]
+
         for collection in self.fetch_collections():
             _resp = {}
             if collection.is_published() and collection.collection_id.id in has_revision:
                 continue
-            if collection.collection_id.id not in ["0aab20b3-c30c-4606-bd2e-d20dae739c45"]:
+            if collection.collection_id.id not in COLLECTIONS:
                 continue
             if collection.is_published():
                 # published collection without an active revision