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Date & Time

November 12, 2024, 12:00 Eastern Time
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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

Agenda:

Announcements
- TODAY: The Role of Open Access in Review, Promotion, and Tenure (COAPI Community Call)
  - Tuesday, November 12, 2024, 3:00 pm EST
  - Register Here
  - Speakers: Amanda Makula, University of San Diego & Juan Pablo Alperin, Simon Fraser University
- THIS THURSDAY: ORCID DSpace Update Call
  - Thursday, November 14, 2024, 7am Pacific/ 10am Eastern/ 3pm GMT/ 4pm CET
  - Zoom Link: https://lyrasis.zoom.us/j/81897634733
  - Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vk8JIQGtseqDxCJhYugd-zC5Dj4VI78oeKmwgo-8Qck/edit?usp=sharing
- NEXT TUESDAY: DSpace Coffee Hour with Holger Lenz, DSpace Program Coordinator
  - Tuesday, November 19, 2024, 14:00 UTC (time zone converter)
  - Zoom (Meeting ID: 840 0638 6375 Passcode: 122920)
  - https://lyrasis.zoom.us/j/84006386375?pwd=iiu0yNGynyn1e9xaYrPuuHlHS33saJ.1&from=addon
- NEXT MONTH: Register for Northeast Institutional Repository Day 2024 (NIRD24)
  - The draft schedule is posted at: https://tinyurl.com/nird2024.
  - Registration is free and the registration forms can be found here: Day 1 (12/5) and Day 2 (12/6)
  - Time: 12/5 afternoon ET (UTC -5); 12/6 morning ET (UTC -5)
  - View materials from previous NIRD events here: https://repository.escholarship.umassmed.edu/handle/20.500.14038/51366
- CUSAP Survey: https://stm-assoc.org/share-your-input-cusap-survey-now-live/: seeking direct feedback from Institutional Repositories and other potential users who would benefit from alerts about retractions and/or corrections.

Discussion Topics
- Working Group Updates
  - UX (User Experience)
    - UX project team came up with data and testing components
    - Set up sample collections and communities in DSpace 8 demo site
    - UX collaborators are going to synthesize data after testing is completed, present report
    - Plan is to report out for review by February meeting, Q&A in February
    - Considering a conference proposal
  - Task-Oriented Documentation (Meeting later this month)
    - Currently reviewing documents created by service providers
    - Inviting other service providers to contribute
  - Introduction to DSpace (on hold)
  - Advanced Configurations (Contact Pierre or Kimberly if you want to join this group)
  - Feature Requests (Paige will send announcement soon)
- DSpace and DSpace-CRIS Intent to Investigate Merger (10/21/2024 Announcement): https://groups.google.com/g/dspace-community/c/in1oJI-iNa8/m/cutAv3q7AQAJ
  - What questions does DCAT have? Would DCAT like to learn more about DSpace-CRIS?
    - Need to understand what this change would mean for day-to-day usage
    - Entities are important; need to be able to export data, and need more sophisticated statistics (reason for being interested in DSpace-CRIS)
      - Many European entities are contributing to both DSpace and DSpace-CRIS, and for them, a merger feels more effective.
    - What CRIS is since many orgs don't use DSpace CRIS. What aspects of CRIS will be included in the merger, should it happen?
    - Whether 4Science is still going to be active in the development of the new merged DSpace.
- Theme for 2024-2025
  - DCAT will propose a theme for 2024-2025; 2023-2024 theme was "Community Engagement"
- DSpace Experiences:
  - What's working well for you?
  - What improvements do you need?
  - What do you need help with?

Call Attendees

Kimberly Chapman University of Arizona Libraries

Colin Lukens Harvard Library

Iryna Kuchma EIFL

Marianne Reed University of Kansas Libraries

Priscilla Carmini University of Waterloo

Genny Jon York University

Paige Morgan , University of Delaware

James Holobetz University of Regina

Anne Shelley Iowa State University

Holger Lenz Lyrasis

Regrets

Pierre Lasou Université Laval