Development History

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Last updated: Oct 21, 2019
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ORIGINS

Development originally funded by an IMLS grant

  • Funding Institution: Institute of Museum and Library Services
  • Program: National Leadership Grants for Museums and Libraries
  • Track: Building Digital Resources
  • Grant Number: LG-05-07-0095-07
  • Project Title: “The Texas ETD Repository: Promoting our Scholarship and Preserving our Legacy”
  • Total Funding: $824,626
  • Period: Oct. 1, 2007 – Sept. 30, 2010
  • Total 2007 National Leadership Grant Applications: 154
  • Total Awarded 2007 National Leadership Grants: 27 (17%)
  • Total 2007 National Leadership Grant Funding: $12,199,800

From <https://www.tdl.org/grants/imls/>


Metadata working group provided a report in 2005 that provided guidance

Written as part of the Manakin front-end to DSpace

Development led by Scott Phillips and Co. at Texas A&M University

Deployed at Texas A&M in Fall 2008, UT Austin in Spring 2009


Vireo Users Group founded in 2010 by Laura Hammons, Texas A&M University.  First meeting at Texas Conference on Digital Libraries.


Vireo 1.2 primarily bug fixes.

  http://vireoetd.org/vireo/2011/10/31/vireo-1-2-release-to-include-bug-fixes-troubleshooting-enhancements/


Vireo 1.8  released in October 2012 as an open source product
http://vireoetd.org/vireo/2012/10/17/vireo-1-8-released/


Vireo 2.0 (but officially Vireo 1.9 )

http://vireoetd.org/vireo/2013/02/01/vireo-1-9-released/

Separation of Vireo from DSpace - an independent tool

Play framework with Spring (Java based)

Some new features were added

Benefits

  • Quick to deploy
  • Much easier to uncover & resolve issues (weeks reduced to hours)
  • Early ProQuest integration began here


Vireo 3

http://vireoetd.org/vireo/2015/03/09/vireo-3-0-released-github/

Completed more than 30 new feature including these major ones

  • Finished ProQuest integration of their license, embargo options, and subject codes. Not seamless.  Files are exported from Vireo and FTPd to ProQuest
  • Emails triggered by change of status
  • Needs Correction - tightened up to help students follow correct workflow
  • Reporting and Exports- allows administrative users to create custom, exportable Excel reports by using saved filters and columns. It also includes the addition of the Action Log to a file export package
  • Display select Custom Action checklist items in the student view.
  • An ADA-compliant student submission interface
  • The integration of ORCID researcher IDs into the student workflow

Co-developed by TDL and Texas A&M


Vireo v.4  (planning & development August 2015 - September 2019) 4 full Release: 9/30/2019

Addressed two long standing feature requests for custom worklfows and controlled vocabularies.  Plus

Rebuilt on Spring Boot framework, and build accomplished with Maven

  • Improved metadata based on the TDL Metadata Working Group’s report and updated guidelines for ETDs
  • Enhanced field control for filtering, flagging, and tracking

Co-developed by TDL and Texas A&M