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, May 13, 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
  • New DSpace community events calendar is online: https://dspace.org/events/
  • June DCAT Meeting
    
    • Open Repositories is the following week so no need to not have a June meeting
    • Should we have a full DCAT meeting or reserve the time for the Task-Oriented Documentation and/or other working groups to meet?
  • DCAT at Open Repositories 2025

  • Webinar: DSpace ORCID Update - Spring 2025

    • When: Monday June 9 at 4:30pm UTC
      • Session will be recorded
    • Register to attend: https://lyrasis.zoom.us/meeting/register/UfNmVkUDQLaudE9OOH9RRA#/registration 
    • Details:  In this session, speakers from Lyrasis, the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN), ORCID, and 4Science will share information about the ORCID functionality in DSpace, details about the recent improvements that were contributed by 4Science, potential next steps/future directions for ORCID and DSpace, as well as an overview of the ORCID Global Participation Fund program. This session will be recorded.

    
    

• Topic: Testathon Results
  
  
• Topic:  Working Group Updates
  Registry Update?
• Lunch and Learn
  
  • Workflows use cases and functions
  • Groups use cases and functions
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1woPmGYUiD1kpDWhRzGKfrcm_xhY1XdTjzw8ywXrawj8/edit?usp=sharing

Notes:

• Open Repositories
  • Folks going to Open Repositories: Sarah, Julia, Federico, Carl, Kimberly, Erin, Anne, Vanesa, Jere, Philip
• Testathon
  • Thanks to all participants, particularly Pierre Lasou for his work in preparing the test plan and bringing forward relevant work by developers to the task
• Working Group Updates
  • None for Documentation Working Group
  • Testing User Group is still getting feedback from Leadership Group, Steering Group
    • Feedback is still open, link is in previous DCAT meeting if you'd like to contribute
• Registry Update
  • Holger: Going well!  Plenitude of emails for updating registry entries (if you haven't updated your registry information on the DSpace website, please contact Holger Lenz to do this!)
  • DSpace Registry
• Events
  • Dspace Coffee Hour ( 'The best part of waking up, is Holger's...' )
• Workflows Discussion

Call Attendees

Sarah Barsness, University of Minnesota

Kimberly Chapman, University of Arizona

Emily Crawford, State Library of Massachusetts

Vanesa Evers, Georgia Tech

Julia Gilmore, Scholaris

Kristin Hoffman, Western University

Marcella Huggard, Lyrasis

Erin Jerome, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Pierre Lasou, Université Laval

Holger Lenz, Lyrasis

Gary Maixner, Indiana University Indianapolis

Jere Odell, Indiana University Indianapolis

Anne Shelley , Iowa State University

Carolyn Sullivan , University of Ottawa

Fede Federico Verlicchi , 4Science

Victoria Volkanova, Université de Moncton

Karl Wirth, Creighton University

Philip Young, Virginia Tech

Regrets

Iryna Kuchma EIFL

Colin Lukens Harvard Library 

James Holobetz University of Regina