Islandora → DSpace
University of Toledo
On reaching Carnegie R1 status, the University of Toledo needed a sustainable repository — having already churned through CONTENTdm, Digital Commons and Islandora. Islandora's strict hierarchical data model demanded technical upkeep its small library team could not sustain. Migrating to DSpace via Lyrasis DSpaceDirect simplified everything to a functional, flat Dublin Core structure, and the team used DSpace's native batch processing to remediate legacy metadata across whole communities at once. The repository was cross-linked with ArchivesSpace so researchers could trace provenance. A candid account of escaping accumulated platform technical debt.
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From Migration to Mastery: University of Toledo & Lyrasis DSpaceDirect
Lyrasis
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