DCAT Meeting August 2026

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, August 11, 2026, 12:00 Eastern Time 16:00-17:00 UTC
• 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:

• 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

• Announcements
  • DSpace North American User Group - Program and Registration is open 
    • September 28-30
  • Lyrasis Solutions Showcase - Session 10 - The Internet Archive - Behind the Wheel of a Crawler
    • August 19
  • Coffee with Holger
    • Tuesday, August 18, 19:00 UTC

• Continue Discussions from last month
  • Two new Glossaries in the Guides and FAQs

    • The Glossary of Common Program Terms

      • Suggestion to add a link to the graphic of the DSpace Community from the Join the Community page to see the terms in a visual context

    • The Glossary of Common Technical Terms

  • Call for a Testathon Preparation Working Group or more informal group 
    • Phases
    • Move of content from Spreadsheet to the GitHub pages
    • GitHub intro and training
      • Could start now to think about what kinds of materials could be included.
  • Anyone able to provide an Intro to Configurations and Customizations for repository end-users?
    • Previous discussion about some more options for "out-of-the-box" themes. Not technically feasible to maintain multiple options.
    • Could there be people presenting some examples of themes?

• Next Meeting: September 8, 2026 - day after Labor Day holiday in the US. 

Notes:

Call Attendees

Kent Gerber University of Minnesota

Karl Wirth Creighton University

Colin Lukens Harvard Library

Holger Lenz Lyrasis

Jordan Piščanc (4Science) 

Genny Jon York University, Toronto

Regrets 

Marcella Huggard Lyrasis