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, April 8, 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
  • ORCID DSpace improvements update: https://groups.google.com/g/dspace-community/c/rx-UnkOyw58
  • DSpace / DSpace-CRIS Potential Merger: Panel Discussion about the potential merger of codes bases of DSpace and DSpace CRIS from DSpace Praxistreffen 2025. Panel presentation in English: https://youtu.be/jnqhrqI3bq8
    
  • Community AI Discussions:
    • Aggressive AI Harvesting of Digital Resources: Aggressive AI Harvesting of Digital Resources
      
  • A Coffee with Holger: Your April Meet-up with the DSpace Program Coordinator
    • Do you have questions about the DSpace Community? Do you wonder how to get involved? Are you interested in becoming a DSpace member, but are not sure where to start? Join us for the monthly virtual DSpace Coffee Hour!

      When? Tuesday, April 15, 16:00UTC (Use this time zone converter tool to determine the time for your time zone)

      Where? Live via Zoom: https://lyrasis.zoom.us/j/8340265473?pwd=x9xbUHGcWl7ZjUu7jx8rGOCJWXEsba.1 

      (Meeting ID: 834 026 5473
      Passcode: 306603)

  • 4Science Academy: a new way to learn (Free)
    • First session: Interoperability, relationships and digital ecosystems between cultural heritage & scientific research
    • Date: April 16th, 2025
    • Time: 10:00 am EDT
    • Registration Link 

• DCAT UX Working Group Presentation
  • Erica Johns, Colin Lukens, Genny Jon, Shannon Kipphut-Smith
  • DCAT UX Working Group Wiki Page (2024-2025)
  • Draft UX Project Report
• Topic:  DSpace 9.0 Testathon 
  • Thanks to Pierre Lasou for coordinating the Testathon wiki page and the Test Plan, including adding developer tests from DSpace 8 to the DSpace 9 test plan
  • DSpace Release 9.0 Testathon Page

  • DSpace 9 Test Plan

  • DSpace 9 Testathon Instructions

  • Accessibility testing
    
    
• Topic: Lunch and Learn for Next Meeting? Or Separate Meeting?
  • Workflows, Groups, Format Registry (managing, adding, things to do or not do), Curation Tasks and Processes from the Processes tab, Import Metadata from other sources

Call Attendees

Colin LukensHarvard University

Kimberly Chapman University of Arizona Libraries

Sarah Barsness 

Paige Morgan 

Erica Johns 

Fede Federico Verlicchi

Genny Jon & Jack Leong, York University Libraries

Peter Sutton-Long 

Holger Lenz 

Marianne Reed 

Emily Crawford

Regrets

Iryna Kuchma EIFL

James Holobetz University of Regina