DSpace Deep Dive Webinar: Moving From bepress to DSpace — A Migration Story

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Holger Lenz

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Sep 30, 2025, 4:30:04 PM (yesterday) Sep 30
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Dear DSpace Community, 

We're pleased to share an upcoming free webinar. 

Moving from bepress to DSpace — A Migration Story

The University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries migrated ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst from bepress' Digital Commons to an Atmire-hosted DSpace 7.x instance during the 2023-24 academic year. 

In this session, presenters will walk through the development and implementation of their migration plan, as well as the steps taken to fully launch their new DSpace instance. Topics include: 

  • Blocking Google requests
  • Identifying items that shouldn’t have migrated
  • Lifting preemptively placed embargoes
  • Cleaning up bad date formats
  • Discovering previously suppressed metadata that had been exposed
  • Managing the expectations of eager submitters and users

Date & Time

📅 Wednesday, October 15, at 14:00 UTC (10:00 am EDT | 16:00 CEST | 19:30 pm IST)
To add this event to your calendar, visit the DSpace website and click "add to calendar". 

How to attend


Can't attend?

🎥 The webinar will be recorded and shared with the DSpace community.

Would like to present at an upcoming webinar?

If you would like to share a DSpace Deep Dive story, highlight a specific feature or customization, or anything else that could benefit the community, please visit https://dspace.org/webinars/ and sign up to present!


We hope you’ll join to hear lessons learned from this major migration!


Holger Lenz (hear my name)
DSpace Program Coordinator 

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