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, January 13, 2026, 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.

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 and Notes:

• Announcements
  • 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/
    • DSpace Slack channel: https://dspace-org.slack.com

• • New Versions Released (7.6.6, 8.3, 9.2)
    • December 17, 2025

• • DSpace 2024-2025 Annual Report Published
    •  DSpace Annual Report page
  • Lyrasis CST interoperability Project Feedback Survey
    • DSpace Feedback Survey open until January 15, 2026

• Upcoming Events
  • Webinar: DSpace Reimagined — The Next Generation of AI-Powered Repositories
    • Date: Thursday, January 15, 2026
    • Time: 14:00–15:00 UTC
    • Register online (registration required)
  • virtual DSpace Coffee Hour with Holger, DSpace Program Coordinator
    • Time: Tuesday, January 20, 2026, 14:00 UTC
    • Live via Zoom: https://lyrasis.zoom.us/j/8340265473?pwd=x9xbUHGcWl7ZjUu7jx8rGOCJWXEsba.1 
  • DSpace Praxistreffen 2026 in-person meeting in Lüneburg, Germany - Call for Proposals
    • proposals due January 31
    • Date: March 10th and 11th, 2026
    • DSpace Praxistreffen 2026

• Clean up old DSpace GitHub Issues
  • Group meeting on January 29 to discuss and review the old issues
  • Questions we are considering:
    • Is the issue still understandable?
    • Is there still activity/discussions around the issue?
    • Was it documented for an unsupported version of DSpace (6 or older?) 
    • Is there a PR made on the issue? Is the PR old too?
    • Is the user still part of or is still around/involved in the Dspace community?

• Workgroup update
  
  • Import Metadata feature
    • looking at what options are available in the Demo version.
    • Help repository managers choose what options to share with their users
    • Thinking about user experience with this feature

• Future DCAT Topics?
• 2026-01-15 DSpace and DSpace-CRIS Merger Management Team Meeting Notes

• Next Meeting: February 10, 2026

Notes:

Call Attendees

James Holobetz University of Regina

Peter Sutton-Long University of Cambridge

Kimberly Chapman University of Arizona Libraries

Kent Gerber University of Minnesota

Karl Wirth Creighton University

Erin Jerome UMass Amherst

Priscilla Carmini University of Waterloo

Emily Crawford, State Library of Massachusetts
Jordan Piščanc (4Science) 4Science

Allison Fischbach, Johns Hopkins University

 Genny Jon, Jack Leong - York University

Philip Young Virginia Tech

Nadine Seekirchner ETH Zurich

Regrets 
Colin Lukens