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As part of sharing their experience with the wider community, UMass Amherst will present a webinar hosted by Lyrasis:
📅 Date : October 15 ; 2:00 pm UTC - 3:00 pm UTC
🔗 Register here: Lyrasis Webinar Registration
What the webinar will cover
The UMass Amherst team will take attendees behind the scenes of their migration journey, from planning to execution and post-launch clean-up. Topics will include:
- Developing and implementing a migration plan
- Blocking automated Google requests during the transition
- Identifying items that should not have migrated
- Lifting embargoes that had been preemptively placed
- Cleaning up metadata, such as correcting date formats
- Discovering and addressing previously suppressed metadata
- Managing expectations of eager submitters and users
Their presentation will highlight not only the technical steps, but also the lessons learned and strategies that made the migration a success.
The session will be recorded and made available to the DSpace community.
Learn more about the UMass Amherst migration
This webinar builds on the story we previously shared about UMass Amherst’s move from Digital Commons to DSpace. You can revisit that article here:
👉 UMass Amherst migration from bepress Digital Commons to Atmire’s Open Repository
Reflecting on this journey, Erin Jerome, Library Publishing and Institutional Repository Librarian at UMass Amherst, shared:
“The migration of our 18-year-old institutional repository from bepress’ Digital Commons to Atmire’s Open Repository was the culmination of almost four years of dedicated work – from collecting stakeholder feedback, conducting an environmental scan of repository platforms, interviewing DSpace repository administrators, developing a migration plan, and, finally tackling the migration itself. We had become increasingly uneasy with relying on a proprietary, publisher-owned platform that lacked any kind of interoperability or integration with other tools and resources. We have a lot of metadata cleanup, workflow testing, and learning how to use the platform ahead of us, but we are excited to be using an open-source platform which better aligns with our values as an organization. We look forward to all of the possibilities DSpace offers both our users and collection administrators”