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 ()
• 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

Iryna Kuchma