Code of Conduct


All DSpace meetings follow the Lyrasis Code of Conduct. We ask you to remain respectful in all discussions. We also encourage you to report any violations to Lyrasis (see Code of Conduct for details).

What is DCAT?

The DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) represents the interests of repository managers and administrators across the globe and, indirectly, DSpace end users. DCAT is a permanent DSpace Working Group sponsored by the DSpace Steering Group that advises DSpace Program governance groups. We welcome feedback and participation from anyone in the community.

Date & Time

  • Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 12:00 Eastern Time
  • See the world clock to determine the meeting time for your location.
  • Meeting length: one hour

Join information:

We will be using the DCAT Chair's Zoom Room for our meeting.

NOTE: there is a new passcode to enter the meeting: dspace2025

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://umn.zoom.us/j/95455262817?pwd=Z3o5BexR7gsspIzDiP7beexkthKR4i.1 (Meeting ID: 954 5526 2817) Passcode: dspace2025

Additional ways to join: DCAT Chair Zoom Room

Agenda and Notes:

      • DSpace Deep Dive Webinar Series
        • Would you like to show off your repository to the DSpace Community? Do you have custom features that may be of interest to others? Please consider participating in the DSpace Deep Dive Webinar Series.



Notes:

  • Event announcements:
  • Shared the Test Plan document progress. Re-test and Non Compliance could use some attention. Creating GitHub issues based on issues that come up in the tests.
    • Examples where test are unclear and what to do.
      • With red issues, feel free to test out and create a Github issue if an issue is not already attached
      • Please test out the 'Not Tested' options, particularly if this is a feature you use
      • Note that if the login information disappears from the header of the demo site due to folks editing it, the login info is available on the DSpace wiki site and in the testathon docs
      • If the test is unclear, or should be broken up into 2-3 tests, please provide detailed comments on this problem in the Excel sheet
    • Release notes not yet complete for DSpace 10.x, but are available
  • Future topics
    • Scholaris Expert Groups
  • Other business
    • Number of thesis subjects
      • Policy solutions for ingest
        • "Make sure these are actual words that appear in the students' thesis"
        • LAC only takes the first 25 words
      • Make an issue ticket on Github
    • Has anyone ever had issues with students putting a long string of subjects in one field
      • Would have to review via SQL or Metadata Export and OpenRefine/Excel shenanigans
    • Project to add tooltips to DSpace submission forms
      • User feedback from one Scholaris school 
        • One school used a very thorough testing script
        • Recommendations for different tooltips
        • UX group examining this– Erin, Colin...
        • Potential linkage to accessibility issues; Github Ticket
        • Need to write out tooltips and implement these!  Either UX or DCAT group or ...?
        • Consider translation aspect
    • UX Project Report
    • Rest API can be used to find materials with embargoed status
      • Julia Gilmore & Scholaris can do this


Call Attendees

Kent Gerber University of Minnesota

Silvija Gavrilovic 

Erin Jerome UMass Amherst

Allison Fischbach Johns Hopkins University

Lia Eggleston 

Karl Wirth Creighton University

Anne Shelley Iowa State University

Carolyn Sullivan University of Ottawa

Genny Jon York University, Toronto

Emily Crawford, State Library of Massachusetts

Jordan Piščanc (4Science) 

Hannah Hadley, Princeton University

Jamie Mac, University of the West of Scotland

Peter Sutton-Long , University of Cambridge

Holger Lenz , Lyrasis




 Regrets 

Colin Lukens Harvard Library

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