Code of Conduct
All DSpace meetings follow the Lyrasis Code of Conduct. We ask you to remain respectful in all discussions. We also encourage you to report any violations to Lyrasis (see Code of Conduct for details).
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, February 10, 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
- DSpace and DSpace-CRIS Merger Management Team
- https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+and+DSpace-CRIS+Merger+Management+Team
- Project board to follow developments related to the merger: https://github.com/orgs/DSpace/projects/34
- Several smaller PRs have been merged
- Larger PRs are nearly ready to be reviewed and hopefully merged
- Merger is on track, lots of encouraging progress
- Request to community to test/review PRs if you have capacity
- FAQs for getting involved - DSpace and DSpace-CRIS Merger Management Team
- Webinar Recording: DSpace Reimagined — The Next Generation of AI-Powered Repositories
- Lia Eggleston hired as new DSpace Technical Support Engineer on January 20, 2026 - welcome Lia!
- Housekeeping
- Upcoming Events
- DSpace North America User Group Meeting (Colin)
- September 28-30, 2026 at Harvard University, Call for proposals will go out in the spring
- DSpace Praxistreffen 2026 - March 10-11, 2026
- Report from DSpace GitHub Ticket Cleanup
- Thursday, January 29, 2026 Meeting
- DCAT subgroup met to review some older tickets and clean up GitHub backlog - this work is ongoing, not tied to timing for new DSpace releases
- https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20sort%3Acreated-asc
- Developers are also monitoring the tickets, adding a 'stale' label to issues that have no activity in past 3 years
- 21 issues on Dspace-angular repository have been flagged as “stale”: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues?q=state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22stale%22
- Workgroup Update - Import Metadata feature (Kimberly)
- Live Import for arXiv is working now on DSpace demo site
- Group requests: adding helper/hint text in UI, what import features do you use?
- If metadata being imported is not a field in the submission form, the metadata is not visible until item is published
- Announcements
- Proposed dates for 10.0 Testathon - April 6-24 (three weeks)
- Next Meeting: March 10, 2026
Notes:
Call Attendees
Kent Gerber University of Minnesota
Kimberly Chapman University of Arizona Libraries
Colin Lukens Harvard Library
James Holobetz University of Regina
Emily Crawford, State Library of Massachusetts
Holger Lenz, Lyrasis
Lia Eggleston, Lyrasis
Genny Jon , Jack Leong - York University, Toronto
Pierre Lasou Université Laval, Québec
Yohann Cottin uOttawa Library
Sarah Barsness , University of Minnesota
Peter Sutton-Long, University of Cambridge UK
Anne Shelley Iowa State University
Julia Gilmore Scholars Portal
Fede Federico Verlicchi 4Science
Jordan Piščanc (4Science) 4Science
Bill Tantzen University of Minnesota
Regrets
