DCAT Meeting November 2025

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, November 18, 2025, 12:00 Eastern Time
  • date moved from regular second Tuesday of the month (Nov 11) due to US Federal holiday.
• 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:

• Announcements
   
  • Introductions
    • new DCAT Chair Kent Gerber
  • Housekeeping
    • Sign up for the DCAT Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/DSpaceCommunityAdvisoryTeam
    • Do you have a DSpace wiki account? Email wikihelp@lyrasis.org for an account
    • DSpace Community Events Calendar: https://dspace.org/events/

Upcoming Events:

• • Registration open for 2025 Northeast Institutional Repository Day (NIRD25) 
    • Online Conference
    • Thursday, December 4, 2025 - 1:00pm - 5:00pm Eastern AND Friday, December 5, 2025 - 10am - 1:00pm Eastern 
    • https://zenodo.org/communities/nird/about
      
      
  • Call for Proposals for 21st International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2026)
    • Online Conference
    • June 8-11, 2026
    • https://or2026.openrepositories.org/program/call-for-proposals/
    • Deadline for proposals is January 11, 2026

• • AI Discussions Group - Solutions Showcase #4
    • Webinar with Demos and Q&A on how to deal with AI bot harvesting on repository systems.
    • Friday, November 21, 2025 - 9:00am Eastern
    • Location: Zoom - https://lyrasis.zoom.us/meeting/register/2H7biEMBRru9YL11ZvfrXw
• • DSpace Deep Dive Webinar: Matomo Integration in DSpace
    • Date: December 9, 10 am EST
    • Registration Link is forthcoming

• Updates:
  
  
  • Workgroup Update - Import Metadata feature (will update in December!)

• Curation System Task Demo
  • Running Bitstream Format Profiler Task

• DSpace Documentation highlights?

• Future DCAT Topics?
  • Deploying configurable entities and ORCID integration in existing repositories
  • Showcasing the value of DSpace repositories
  • Check in and clean up older DSpace GitHub Pull Requests and Issues

• Next Meeting: December 9, 2025

Notes:

Bitstream format registry demonstration by Kent:

• what you put in the Description matters! Kent also recommends including the file format extension
• demonstrated selecting Profile Bitstream Formats task on the System Curation Tasks screen; select handle for whichever Community or Collection you wish to profile
• click "Retrieve Process Output" on the processes screen; this will provide you a text file within that same screen - breakdown of number of Items with that format and the format description
• copy and paste the text into a text editor
• if you want to convert to a spreadsheet format, need to add a delimiter, or separator - you can use a regular expression to find and replace a pattern with, for example, the | character, in order to make sure the data will convert with appropriate columns

Call Attendees

Kent Gerber University of Minnesota Libraries

Kimberly Chapman University of Arizona Libraries

Erik Moore University of Minnesota Libraries

Emily Crawford, State Library of Massachusetts

Holger Lenz Lyrasis

Marcella Huggard Lyrasis

Genny Jon York University

Carolyn Sullivan, Université d'Ottawa

James Holobetz University of Regina

Philip Young Virginia Tech

Nadine Seekirchner ETH Zurich

Vanesa Evers, Georgia Tech

Julia GilmoreScholarsPortal (University of Toronto)

Jordan Piščanc (4Science) 4Science

Matt McKinney Texas Tech University

William Tantzen University of Minnesota Libraries

Regrets 

Peter Sutton-Long, University of Cambridge

Colin Lukens Harvard Library