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Item A Comparison of Features Among ETD Submission Systems(2013-03-26) Larrison, Stephanie; Texas State UniversityMy poster will provide a comparison of features offered by different Electronic Thesis and Dissertation submission systems in an easy to understand and visually appealing table. The intent of this poster is to offer a quick snapshot of what ETD systems can do to help potential and current users determine which products may best fit their needs. It will be of interest to those involved in the policies, management, publication or curation of theses and dissertations at an institution. I will be comparing Vireo, the open-source Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Submission and Management software developed by the Texas Digital Library, and Proquest’s free web-based ETD Administrator. I also plan to add additional systems to the comparison chart as information is gathered.Item ETD Management in the Texas Digital Library(2008-06-09) Brace, Tim; Mikeal, Adam; Paz, Jay; Phillips, Scott; McFarland, Mark; Leggett, John; Texas A&M University; University of Texas at Austin; Texas Digital LibraryOne of the earliest TDL initiatives was a federated collection of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) from across the state. There are currently four schools contributing over 4000 ETDs per year, and with 16 participating member schools in TDL, this number is continually increasing. A diverse set of content contributors introduces problems of inconsistent metadata and incompatible storage and access methods, making it difficult to offer effective tools and services. This situation drove the decision to create a common system for managing the entire life-cycle of ETDs, from the point of ingestion to final publication. ETD management fits nicely with the other services offered by TDL, and a single point of ingestion is appealing for both technical and economic reasons. In 2007, we reported on the status of the functional system prototype. Much progress has been made toward implementation of this system, starting with the majority of the development, and leading to the demonstrator event that is currently taking place in spring 2008 at Texas A&M University and the University of Texas. This presentation discusses the ETD management system from a functional point-of-view, starting with the student interface for ETD submission (the ingestion point into the repository), and then covering the administrative interface used by university staff members for managing the iterative verification workflow. Finally, we will discuss the requirements for moving forward into a production environment. These include testing and scaling the system to handle the large numbers of users dispersed over a significant geographic area (Texas is the third-highest producer of PhDs in the United States). Rough timelines will be discussed for deployment, first at Texas A&M and the University of Texas, then as the system is gradually expanded through a program of beta testers, and finally into open enrollment.Item ETDs, ORCID, and Vireo(2016-05-25) Lyon, Colleen; University of Texas at AustinIn early spring of 2015 the University of Texas at Austin added an option for graduate students to claim and add an ORCID to their ETD submission. UT Austin uses the Vireo submission system for processing ETDs and adding ORCID was done as part of a software upgrade. ORCID are persistent digital identifiers for researchers. They help researchers distinguish their research from everyone else. At the time we weren’t prepared to publicize the option, but we want to make it available for anyone to use. We intended to provide education and outreach at some point in the future. In the summer of 2015, library staff noticed that many submissions were coming through Vireo with an ORCID included. An initial look at the data revealed approximately 29% of students had chosen to include an ORCID. This was quite a surprise given the lack of marketing, so in an effort to better understand how many students were choosing this option, we decided to investigate the use of ORCID for all 2015 submissions. A complete assessment of ORCID will be done once all the December 2015 submissions are finished being processed in late February. We intend to look at total numbers, numbers by department, and by degree level (masters vs doctoral). We will present our findings along with plans for marketing efforts to increase the use of ORCID.Item Grazing Impact on Brood Parasitism(2014-04-16) Locatelli, AnthonyAnthropogenic land use changes can have tremendous direct and indirect effects on biota. A prevalent land use change in Texas is conversion of land to grazing. Grazing facilitates foraging opportunities for brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater), a brood parasite. Cowbirds can reduce productivity of their hosts, causing some host species to decline in abundance. Thus, grazing indirectly influences productivity of some songbirds. The black-capped vireo (Vireo atricapilla) is an endangered songbird with most of its breeding range occurring in areas of livestock and other ungulate grazing. A contributing factor to its endangered status is brown-headed cowbird parasitism. I monitored 382 black-capped vireo nests from 2012-2013 in Real, Kerr, Bandera and Edwards counties, Texas and described parasitism. I investigated how grazing system related to parasitism; I defined grazed systems by the presence of enclosed ungulates and wild ungulate only systems by the absence of enclosed ungulates. I also examined how grazing intensity (represented by distance from nest to nearest ungulate water source), nest concealment, and grazing in the landscape (represented by proportion of grassland within 3 km of a nest), related to parasitism. Overall parasitism was 30% (n = 166) in 2012 and 31% (n = 216) in 2013, moderate compared to other research, but above a proposed threshold of concern. Grazing system and grazing in the landscape interacted in predicting probability of parasitism. Grazing in the landscape was not important in predicting brood parasitism in wild ungulate only grazing systems, but was important in predicting brood parasitism in grazed systems. In grazed systems, there was low probability of brood parasitism with low grazing in the landscape and high probability of parasitism with high grazing in the landscape. Nest concealment and grazing intensity were not good predictors of brood parasitism. Land managers could use this information to prioritize cowbird management or preservation efforts.Item Introducing the Texas A&M University Libraries Digital Asset Management Ecosystem(2017-05) Creel, James; Bolton, Michael; Potvin, Sarah; Huff, Jeremy; Savell, Jason; Welling, William; Laddusaw, Ryan; Day, Kevin; Hahn, Douglas; Cooper, Micah; Stricklin, RobertAfter several years of planning and technical development across Texas A&M University departments, the University Libraries are excited to announce the deployment of the first round of production-level services and applications comprising our Digital Asset Management Ecosystem. In this presentation, we will give a grand tour of the existing services and discuss our next steps. Our approach has emphasized a service-oriented architecture with separation of concerns between components and standard protocols for information transfer. This has enabled us to integrate legacy components into the same workflows as new ones. In particular, our legacy DSpace instance, OAKTrust, participates on a par with a new Fedora repository, and both repositories can receive content from our ingestion tools and use that content to drive user-facing discovery and exhibition layers. Conduits for curation and ingestion of content include legacy workflows with DSpace SAF (Simple Archive Format), SWORD (Simple Webservice Offering Repository Deposit) from Vireo, and various command-line scripts. New, more user-friendly workflows use RESTful APIs through the MAGPIE (Metadata Assignment GUI Providing Ingest and Export) application that has been presented previously at TCDL. The MAGPIE application can bring in metadata from our Voyager catalog, CSV spreadsheets, DSpace SAF exports, and automated suggestions from controlled vocabularies. The content (PDF or image) and metadata are then displayed in the system for a human to edit and amend. Publication over REST APIs is currently available for DSpace, Fedora, and Archivematica. MAGPIE can also operate in a “headless” mode if no human curation is required. In “headless” mode ingested content is published immediately to the destination. Content available in our DSpace and Fedora IRs is of course exposed via the out-of-the-box interfaces these systems provide. For DSpace, these interfaces include the XMLUI, Solr, and an RDF webapp. For Fedora, these include Solr, Fuseki, and a robust messaging service. In addition, Fedora now offers a facility called API-X for proxying and modifying HTTP requests to Fedora in interesting customizable ways. One important development in this framework is the PCDM extension from Amherst College, which provides RDF metadata for PCDM-structured objects in your Fedora repository. We use this extension to drive a new IIIF manifest generator that generates Collection or Presentation manifests compatible with a variety of services, including Spotlight, Mirador and the Bodleian Libraries IIIF Manifest editor. In the future, we plan to enhance our IIIF manifest generator to utilize RDF responses from the DSpace RDF webapp in the same way it does from the Amherst PCDM Fedora extension. We will also continue to deploy new user-interfaces for discovery and exhibition. In this regard, we are pleased to have the flexibility to use custom in-house solutions or existing open-source projects, so long as they adhere to standards such as well-defined REST APIs, PCDM-RDF, and IIIF.Item Introducing Vireo: ETD Submittal and Management for DSpace(2009-07) Mikeal, Adam; Phillips, Scott; Leggett, John J.; McFarland, MarkThe Texas Digital Library (TDL) is a consortium of public and private institutions from across the state of Texas; a major project in TDL is the development of a state-wide repository for managing the entire life-cycle of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). The Texas ETD Repository is a large effort that span multiple independent initiatives, all of which interact to support the overall task of managing ETDs in Texas. This presentation will describe Vireo, the customized submission and workflow management application that TDL developed for DSpace, and it's role within the Texas ETD Repository. We will describe its current implementation as a Manakin aspect and theme, and discuss the future plans for the application, including its release to the repository community under an open source license.Item January 2018 Forum(Texas Digital Library, 2018-01-17) Park, Kristi; Mumma, Courtney; DeForest, LeaItem July 2019 Forum(Texas Digital Library, 2019-07-17) DeForest, Lea; Mumma, Courtney; Park, KristiItem July 2020 Forum(Texas Digital Library, 2020-07-15) Deforest, Lea; Park, Kristi; Mumma, CourtneyItem June 2020 Forum(Texas Digital Library, 2020-06-17) Deforest, Lea; Park, KristiItem March 2018 Texas Digital Library Forum(Texas Digital Lirary, 2018-03-21) Park, Kristi; Mumma, Courtney; DeForest, LeaPresentation for the March 2018 Texas Digital Library (TDL) Forum. This TDL Forum featured Kristi Park providing an update on TDL staffing as well as a services update on OJS, Vireo and the Hyku pilot project. Laura McElfresh gave an update on the DSpace Education Working Group. Courtney Mumma discussed upcoming conferences and events where TDL will be the keynote. Lea DeForest spoke about upcoming TDL events including TCDL, a TLA meet-up and the March Metadata Mixer.Item September 2020 Forum(Texas Digital Library, 2020-09-16) Deforest, Lea; Park, Kristi; Mumma, CourtneyItem September 2021 Forum(Texas Digital Library, 2021-09-15) Deforest, Lea; Mumma, Courtney; Park, Kristi; Suarez, AlexItem Session 3H | A Platform for Submitting Content with Diverse Formats and Destinations: Vireo 4 with Customized Workflows(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-26) Creel, JamesThe Vireo electronic thesis submittal system has been widely adopted in support of academic document workflows. As its use has increased, so has a demand for new kinds of workflows supporting different content types. Recently, two organizations have approached the Vireo development team with novel use cases. The Cushing Memorial Library and Archives needs a workflow supporting the archiving of born-digital resources from donors. The LAUNCH: Undergraduate Research office at Texas A&M seeks new workflows for audiovisual performing art works. We will elaborate on these use cases and seek to engage the community in support of the development initiative.Item Session 4A | Vireo Users Group Birds-of-a-Feather(Texas Digital Library, 2022-05-26) Mumma, Courtney; Peterson, BillieThis is an opportunity for Vireo users to come together to talk about their transitions and plans for Vireo 4. There will be ample opportunity to ask questions of the lead developers at TDL as well as the leaders of the Vireo User Group’s Steering Committee.Item TDL Vireo User Group 2020(Texas Digital Library, 2020-06-16) Park, Kristi; Mumma, Courtney; Smutniak, FrankThe annual TDL Vireo User Group MeetingItem Test Submission(2015-02) Submitter, TestThis is a sample submission generated by Vireo to test the repository deposit features.Item User Group Meeting: Vireo User Group(Texas Digital Library, 2020-06-16) Mumma, Courtney; Crossno, JonItem Vireo 4 Training 2020(Texas Digital Library, 2020-07-17) Mumma, Courtney; Smutniak, FrankItem Vireo 4: Connecting Diverse Parts of Organizations to Customizable ETD Submissions(2022) Wuchner, EmilyIn 2010, the Texas Digital Library (TDL) released the first version of Vireo—open source software developed to ease the electronic thesis submission and review process, as well as to deposit the final document in the institutional repository. Now, a decade and a few versions later, TDL and the broader community of open source developers have released Vireo 4, which introduces a number of new features. These updates continue to ease the submission and review process for students and thesis reviewers as well as continue to archive student works in repositories. For instance, Vireo 4 users can create independent workflows (based on submission type, college, degree, etc.) that enable institutions to collect different information based on submission type. So, for example, an institution can collect different information from doctoral students than master’s students at the time of document submission. While in Vireo 3 students typed information such as committee member names, email addresses, and department names, in Vireo 4, institutions can upload lists of controlled vocabulary that display as drop-down menus for student use, thus providing consistent spelling and terminology and reducing metadata editing. This poster, presented at USETDA 2022, offers a side-by-side comparison of Vireo 3 (released in 2015) to Vireo 4 (released in 2020). Using visuals from the interface and descriptions, we highlight these updates to help users better understand the changes and how they might be applied and customized. We also share tips and best practices for implementing Vireo 4 at different institutions. Building connections between students, thesis reviewers, the repository, and the public is one of the core goals of Vireo. Now with the new features available in Vireo 4, institutions can create even stronger connections to further this goal.