Date & Time

• Tuesday, March 18, 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)

Additional ways to join: DCAT Chair Zoom Room

Agenda:

• Announcements
  • Are you subscribed to the DCAT Google Group? 
    
    • Sign in to your Google account
    • https://groups.google.com/g/DSpaceCommunityAdvisoryTeam
  • Do you have a DSpace Wiki account? 
    
    • wikihelp@lyrasis.org
  • Have you updated your DSpace Registry information? https://dspace.org/registry/
    
  • Holger Lenz, DSpace Program Coordinator: 
    • DSpace Community Webinar/Training/Showcase
    • Coffee with Holger: Tuesday, March 18, 2025
      
      
• Working Group Updates
  • UX Working Group: DCAT presentation April 8th
  • Documentation:
    • Statistics information: volunteer needed to synthesize notes from February meeting
    • How to guide on improving visibility, quality and interconnection of repositories with OAI-PMH (working draft) (Iryna)
    • Translation support
    • Task-Oriented Documentation - still seeking chair or co-chairs so this group can move forward

• Topic:  DSpace 9.0 Testathon 
  • Testathon Dates: April 7th - April 18th
  • Seeking two volunteers to assist with testathon preparation (March 24-April 4)
    • Building testathon information page and FAQ / guide
    • Building testathon spreadsheet for tests (and reaching out to developers about tests)
    • Help with communication messages to DSpace Community and DSpace National User Group Coordinators
    • Setting up drop-in sessions/coordinating drop-in sessions
  • Seeking two volunteers to help during the testathon (drop-in sessions, monitor spreadsheet to add GitHub tickets) 

Call Attendees

Kimberly Chapman University of Arizona Libraries

Paige Morgan University of Delaware Libraries

Carolyn Sullivan Université d'Ottawa

James Holobetz University of Regina

Iryna Kuchma EIFL

Holger Lenz, Lyrasis 

Marcella Huggard Lyrasis

Erin Jerome , UMass Amherst

Pierre Lasou, Université Laval

Kent Gerber , University of Minnesota Libraries

Colin Lukens Harvard Library

Genny Jon & Jack Leong, York University Libraries

Peter Sutton-Long , University of Cambridge

Julia Gilmore , Scholars Portal (Scholaris) 

Colleen Lyon , University of Texas at Austin

Silvija Gavrilovic World Bank Group

Regrets