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• Tuesday, August 12, 2025, 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.

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/81605358751 (Meeting ID: 816 0535 8751 Passcode: dspace)

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• • COAPI (Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions ) Community Call, “Using OpenAlex to Support Campus OA Policy Outreach”.

    • Wednesday, August 13, at 11:00 AM CDT.

    • Registration: https://sparcopen-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/Ilh_QcfiS7OjbtmiXlxbpQ#/registration
    • Discussion with Kyle Demes, OurResearch COO, who will introduce you to OpenAlex and share details about how librarians can use the platform to enhance the work we do promoting open access scholarship on our campuses and across the globe.
      
      
  • DSpace Virtual Coffee Hour with Holger Lenz
    • August 19, 2025: 123:00 pm - 14:00 pm EDT
    • https://dspace.org/events/dspace-virtual-coffee-hour-2-2025-08-19/
      
      

  • US/CA DataCite Community Call: Assessing & Improving DOI Metadata

    • When:  August 19, 2025: 1:00 pm EDT
    • Registration: https://lyrasis.zoom.us/meeting/register/aOacLoj9Tyy_cD12SzTh9w 
    • Agenda: Guest  Guest speakers representing different perspectives and initiatives related to assessing & improving DOI metadata:
      • DataCite(Maria Gould, Product Director at DataCite)
      • OpenAlex(Kyle Demes, Chief Operating Officer at OurResearch)
      • Metadata Game Changers(Erin Robinson and Ted Habermann, co-founders)
      • COMET(Dione Mentis, COMET Project Lead)
        
        

  • AI Discussions Group Solutions Showcase Series,

    • When: Thursday, August 28th: 10:30 am EDT

    • Registration: https://lyrasis.zoom.us/meeting/register/ITwAfGVFQdS2IF_0uCkTTA
    • Learn More: Solutions Showcase Series
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  • DSpace 9 Webinar Q+A
    • When: Wednesday, September 3rd, 9:30 am EDT
    • Registration: https://lyrasis.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_stzDP5oUQa2gy4JN5osS6A#/registration
    • Learn more: https://dspace.org/events/dspace-9-webinar/

• Discussion:
  
  
  • Load Time Error Reporting Tips
    
    • Deroost, I., Lowel, A., Bondarenko, Y., & Droogmans, L. (2025, June 17). From Load Times to Bot Traffic: A Comprehensive Approach to DSpace Performance. Open Repositories 2025 (OR2025), Chicago, Illinois, USA. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15758644
      • Start with slide/page 23
    • Creating a Bug Ticket section from DSpace Community Event North America

• • DCAT Input Needed:
    • Helper Text for Import Metadata
    • Editable Space at Beginning of Submission Forms
      
      
  • Lunch and Learn - System Curation Tasks
    • Opportunity for people to report out any testing/learning since the last DCAT meeting
    • Follow up on Profile Bitstream Formats

Notes:

All Open Repositories 2025 Presentations in Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/communities/openrepos/records?q=&f=subject%3AOR2025&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=newest

Call Attendees

Emily Crawford, State Library of Massachusetts

Allison Fischbach, Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries and University Museums

Kent Gerber  University of Minnesota Libraries

Julia GilmoreScholaris

Joe Kraus, Reference and Digital Repository Librarian at the Colorado School of Mines

James HolobetzUniversity of Regina Archer Library and Archives

Holger LenzDSpace Program Coordinator

Colin Lukens Harvard Library

Gary Maixner, IU Indianapolis Library

Jordan Piščanc (4Science) , Business Analyst

Nadine Seekirchner ETHZ

Anne ShelleyIowa State University Library

Carolyn Sullivan , University of Ottawa

Karl Wirth, Creighton University Library

Philip Young Virginia Tech

Erin JeromeUMass Amherst

Marianne Reed University of Kansas Libraries

Kimberly Chapman University of Arizona Libraries

Shannon Kipphut-Smith, Rice University Fondren Library

Matt ?

Regrets 

Iryna Kuchma EIFL