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.

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
   
  • Introduction 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
• Updates:
  
  
  • Workgroup Update - Import Metadata feature

• Running Profile Bitstream Formats Curation Task Demo
• DSpace Documentation highlights?

Notes:

Call Attendees

Regrets