Leadership Opportunity - Call for Nominations for DCAT Chair 2025-2026
Kimberly Chapman
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.
DCAT participants share information and learn from each other during monthly Zoom calls (the second Tuesday of each month, generally 11 am or 12 pm Eastern Time, depending on the season and preference of current participants).
DCAT participants are primarily repository personnel representing their communities. DCAT performs the essential functions of managing pre-release Testathons and corresponding non-technical documentation efforts. DCAT also gathers feedback, reports bugs, develops projects to support the DSpace community, and advocates for advancing the development of the DSpace software and expanding the DSpace user community.
DCAT Chair
The DCAT Chair is responsible for facilitating the Team. This includes:
- Building consensus among participants to recommend the group’s annual priorities to the DSpace Steering Group
- Establishing meeting agendas and running meetings
- Reporting and communicating results of these meetings
- Establishing sub-teams to work on various projects
- Coordinating the Testathon prior to each DSpace X.0 release (generally in Spring)
- Coordinating documentation efforts for each release
- Serving as an ex-officio non-voting member of the DSpace
Leadership Group
- Attends quarterly DSpace Leadership Group Meetings (currently the 3rd Wednesday of every 3rd month, for two hours)
- Submitting an annual report to the DSpace Steering Group
Term of Service: One-year renewable term that follows the DSpace Governance year, November 1, 2025 through October 31, 2026.
Qualifications: Candidates for the role of DCAT Chair should be active members of the DSpace community who are repository managers/repository staff (technical/development expertise is not required.) It is expected that candidates will have some familiarity with the DSpace Program; this could include attendance at DCAT meetings and/or DSpace Leadership Group membership and/or participation with a National DSpace User Group. Representatives of DSpace service providers or the DSpace host organization are not eligible to serve as DCAT Chair.
Time Commitment: Volunteer position, 5-10 hours per month
Questions? The current and former DCAT Chairs are happy to answer any questions you may have (Kimberly Chapman, kimberl...@arizona.edu & Maureen Walsh, wals...@osu.edu).
The incoming DCAT Chair will have the opportunity to participate in a DCAT Chair orientation, as well as a DSpace Leadership Group orientation.
Interested? Please fill out the brief nomination form: https://tinyurl.com/DCAT-Chair-2025-2026. Self-nominations are very welcome. If nominating someone else, please note this in the form. Nominations are reviewed by the DSpace Steering Group and DSpace Steering will appoint the DCAT Chair.
Deadline: Sunday, September 7, 2025 (11:59 pm Eastern Time)
Thank you for considering this opportunity,
Kimberly Chapman (DCAT Chair) and Maureen Walsh (DSpace Steering Group Chair 2023-2025)
Chapman, Kimberly A - (kimberlychapman)
Gentle reminder – the deadline to submit your nomination for the DCAT Chair role is Sunday, September 7, 2025, 11:59 pm Eastern Time. The nomination form is available here: https://tinyurl.com/DCAT-Chair-2025-2026.
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