DCAT Meeting July 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, July 14, 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

• Other DSpace Meeting Options
  • DSpace Developer Meetings every Thursday 
    • Encouraged to bring bugs and feature requests especially in next few months
  • DSpace Coffee Hour with Holger
    • When? Tuesday, July 21, 2026, 13:00 UTC (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 

• Announcements
  • Open Repositories 2026 Presentations are available
    • https://zenodo.org/communities/openrepos/records?q=&f=subject%3AOR2026&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=newest
  • DSpace Deep Dive Webinar Series Reminder

• • • We are always looking for presenters for the DSpace Deep Dive Webinar Series! If you're interested in presenting, please fill out the sign-up form on the DSpace website, or email Holger Lenz, DSpace Program Coordinator

      • Interest in walkthough of available configurations/customizations related to usability

• Discussion
  • Moving the Testathon from the Google Spreadsheet to GitHub
    • How many people who participated in the Testathon have access to a GitHub account?
    • What kind of support and documentation can we provide for using GitHub?
      • How to create an issue
      • How to reproduce a bug
    • Can the Testathon have GitHub onbaording aa a part of the process?
    • Form a Testathon Preparation Working Group?
  • Two new Glossaries in the Guides and FAQs

    • The Glossary of Common Program Terms

    • The Glossary of Common Technical Terms

• Next Meeting: August 11, 2026

Notes:

Idea for a Deep Dive, Templates or Themes for the DSpace UI for repository managers (out of the box) -

User interface Configurations

User Interface Customizations

These was some conversation with the Developers that there might be some theme choices in the future?

Testathon planning

• Existing GitHub user documentation and resources from DSpace:
  • How to create a bug ticket (DSpace Community 101 slides)
  • How to submit a ticket to the DSpace issue tracker (DSpace wiki)

Question about which portion of the Confluence wiki is selected for documentation (within a version-based or general DSpace?)

Call Attendees

Kent Gerber University of Minnesota

Carolyn Sullivan Université d'Ottawa

Colin Lukens Harvard Library

Marcella Huggard Lyrasis

Holger Lenz Lyrasis

Lia Eggleston Lyrasis

Kimberly Chapman University of Arizona Libraries

Erin Jerome University of Massachusetts Amherst

Anne Shelley Iowa State University

Julia Gilmore Scholars Portal / University of Toronto

Regrets