Development History

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

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.

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 )

Separation of Vireo from DSpace - an independent tool

Play framework with Spring (Java based)

Some new features were added

Benefits

Vireo 3

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