DCAT Meeting October 2025

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, October 14, 2025, 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.

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/81605358751 (Meeting ID: 816 0535 8751 Passcode: dspace)

Additional ways to join: DCAT Chair Zoom Room

Agenda:

• 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/
      
      

  • Removal of X.509 Certificate Authentication in DSpace 7.6.6, 8.3 and 9.2

    • Old authentication method that nobody seems to use and may not even be functional

    • See Tim Donohue's message from October 2, 2025: https://groups.google.com/g/dspace-community/c/ir3Q7a2SbBQ
      
      
  • Q+A on Potential DSpace/DSpace-CRIS Merger - Recordings & Resources
    • Recording & Slide Deck: https://dspace.org/events/merger-qa/
    • List of responses to Questions: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R0a-m5huHqGhyFil7ivQ70j4VCkgyo0qJJT42-7fqDI/edit?gid=0#gid=0
    • Ask more questions / submit feedback: https://tally.so/r/mZLgjv

• • DSpace 9.x Q+A Webinar - Recordings & Resources
    • Recording, slide deck, and Q+A Google Document: https://dspace.org/events/dspace-9-webinar/

Upcoming Events:

• • Webinar: Moving From bepress to DSpace - A Migration Story
    • October 15, 2025: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm UTC
    • https://lyrasis.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tCNijKNCT5a1_aVzXcpVoA#/registration
      
      
      
  • DSpace Virtual Coffee Hour with Holger Lenz
    • October 21, 2025: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm UTC
    • https://dspace.org/events/dspace-virtual-coffee-hour-2-2025-10-21/
• Updates:
  
  
  • DCAT Chair: November 1, 2025-October 31, 2026
  • DCAT Meeting - November (Veteran's Day)
  • DCAT Meeting Time - Daylight Savings Time change
  • DCAT Workgroup Updates
• Presentation: DCAT and DSpace Governance

• Presentation: DCAT Annual Report 2024-2025

• Brainstorming Activity - DCAT Theme for 2025-2026

Notes:

Call Attendees

Gary Maixner, IU Indianapolis

Allison Fischbach, Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries

Peter Sutton-Long, University of Cambridge

Erin Jerome , UMass Amherst

Carolyn Sullivan, Université d'Ottawa

Holger Lenz , DSpace Program Coordinator

Jordan Piščanc (4Science) 

Vanesa Evers, Georgia Tech

Karl Wirth, Creighton University

Noor Adrianingrum, FAO Knowledge Repository

Emily Crawford, State Library of Massachusetts

Sarah Barsness, University of Minnesota

Marcella Huggard , Lyrasis

Matt McKinney, Texas Tech University

Iryna Kuchma EIFL

Anne Shelley Iowa State University

Regrets 

Colin Lukens Harvard Library