Date & Time
- October 8, 2024, 12:00 Eastern (time change due to daylight savings 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.
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/85709950574 (Meeting ID: 857 0995 0574) Passcode: dspace
Additional ways to join: DCAT Chair Zoom Room
Agenda:
- Announcements
- Save the date for Northeast Institutional Repository Day 2024 (NIRD24)
- December 5th and 6th, 2024
- Time: 12/5 afternoon ET (UTC -5); 12/6 morning ET (UTC -5)
- Virtual event (Zoom link will be provided to registrants)
- View materials from previous NIRD events here: https://repository.escholarship.umassmed.edu/handle/20.500.14038/51366
- Thank you to the University of Minnesota Libraries and Lyrasis for hosting the DSpace North American User Group Meeting (Sept 23-25). The agenda and slides are available here: 2024 DSpace North American User Group Meeting
- The DSpace Newsletter (September 2024) is available here: https://conta.cc/4gJdSKC
- 4Science webinar with ROR ()
- Save the date for Northeast Institutional Repository Day 2024 (NIRD24)
- Presentation
Digital Accessibility and the Institutional Repository: Implementing a New Campus Policy (PDF Slides)
Anne Shelley, Digital Repository Services Librarian, will cover early efforts to evaluate and enhance the digital accessibility of the Iowa State University Digital Repository. The motivation for this work is to comply with an institutional policy and recent updates to the Americans with Disabilities Act that affect public-facing web page content and online courses. Anne will share experiences to date regarding challenges encountered, decisions made, and details of conversations with stakeholders inside and outside the library.
- DCAT Working Group Updates
- UX Working Group Update
- Documentation Working Groups
- Introduction to DSpace
- Task-Oriented Documentation
- Advanced Configuration Options
- New! Feature Requests Working Group (Paige Morgan)
- Meeting time for November
Preparing for the call
If you can join the call, or are willing to comment on the topics submitted via the meeting page, please add your name, institution, and repository URL to the Call Attendees section below.
Call Attendees
Kimberly Chapman, University of Arizona Libraries
Paige Morgan, University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press
Priscilla Carmini, University of Waterloo
Sarah Barsness , University of Minnesota
Kristi Park, Texas Digital Library
Philip Young , Virginia Tech
Alexa Hight, Texas State University
Colleen Lyon, UT Austin
Patrick Diepen, West Texas A&M University
Tom Lyons, UNT Health Science Center
Marianne Reed, University of Kansas Libraries
Emilio Lorenzo, Arvo Consultores
Julia Gilmore, Scholars Portal
Heidi Winkler, Texas Tech
Peter Sutton-Long , University of Cambridge
Shelley Barba, Texas Tech
Genny Jon , York University
Jack Leong, York University
Pierre Lasou Université Laval
Katy Earl, Legislative Library of British Columbia
Anne Shelley Iowa State University
Fede Federico Verlicchi, 4Science
Colin Lukens Harvard Library
James Holobetz , University of Regina
Regrets