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, November 18, 2025, 12:00 Eastern Time
  • date moved from regular second Tuesday of the month (Nov 11) due to US Federal holiday.
• 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.

NOTE: there is a new passcode to enter the meeting: dspace2025

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://umn.zoom.us/j/95455262817?pwd=Z3o5BexR7gsspIzDiP7beexkthKR4i.1 (Meeting ID: 954 5526 2817) Passcode: dspace2025

Additional ways to join: DCAT Chair Zoom Room

Agenda:

• Announcements
   
  • Introductions
    • new DCAT Chair Kent Gerber
  • Housekeeping
    • Sign up for the DCAT Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/DSpaceCommunityAdvisoryTeam
    • Do you have a DSpace wiki account? Email wikihelp@lyrasis.org for an account
    • DSpace Community Events Calendar: https://dspace.org/events/

Upcoming Events:

• • Registration open for 2025 Northeast Institutional Repository Day (NIRD25) 
    • Online Conference
    • Thursday, December 4, 2025 - 1:00pm - 5:00pm Eastern AND Friday, December 5, 2025 - 10am - 1:00pm Eastern 
    • https://zenodo.org/communities/nird/about
      
      
  • Call for Proposals for 21st International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2026)
    • Online Conference
    • June 8-11, 2026
    • https://or2026.openrepositories.org/program/call-for-proposals/
    • Deadline for proposals is January 11, 2026

• • AI Discussions Group - Solutions Showcase #4
    • Webinar with Demos and Q&A on how to deal with AI bot harvesting on repository systems.
    • Friday, November 21, 2025 - 9:00am Eastern
    • Location: Zoom - https://lyrasis.zoom.us/meeting/register/2H7biEMBRru9YL11ZvfrXw

• Updates:
  
  
  • Workgroup Update - Import Metadata feature

• Curation System Task Demo
  • Running Bitstream Format Profiler Task

• DSpace Documentation highlights?
• Future DCAT Topics?
  • Deploying configurable entities and ORCID integration in existing repositories
  • Showcasing the value of DSpace repositories
  • Check in and clean up older DSpace GitHub Pull Requests and Issues

• Next Meeting: December 9, 2025

Notes:

Call Attendees

Regrets 

Peter Sutton-Long, University of Cambridge

Colin Lukens Harvard Library