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Voluntary Service System (VSS)

Metadata Updated: August 2, 2025

Voluntary Service System (VSS) is a national-level application which replaced the site-based Voluntary Timekeeping System (VTK). VTK was used for many years at the Veterans Affairs Medical Centers to track and manage the hours of service contributed by volunteers and volunteer organizations. Consistency of data between sites was a problem and the process of compiling national VTK reports was slow and costly. Many steps were involved because national data was only consolidated once a month and it was usually out of sync. Improved data collection and reporting is now available since users interact directly with a centralized national database. Rehosted VSS uses .NET technology that replaced data transmissions between sites and the Austin Information Technology Center to produce the consolidated national reports. Direct access to data provides instantaneous updates and up-to-the-minute reporting for all users. Central Office administrators and Voluntary staff now have broader more reliable data for managing Volunteer Services.

Access & Use Information

Non-public: This dataset is not for public access or use. Specific details are provided below. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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Dates

Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date August 2, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from VA JSON

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date August 2, 2025
Publisher Department of Veterans Affairs
Maintainer
Identifier VA-VHA-OM-003
Data First Published 2017-07-26
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2020-12-01
Rights VA Volunteer Information
Category Basic Statistics, Use, and Operational Data
Public Access Level non-public
Bureau Code 029:15
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Metadata Catalog ID https://www.data.va.gov/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Data Quality True
Harvest Object Id 1b1719dc-0b3f-47dc-b2e3-29732da2f774
Harvest Source Id fcd1f625-1c2e-4663-95cf-1b0eb053cce1
Harvest Source Title VA JSON
Homepage URL https://www.data.va.gov/d/uddx-ppad
License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Program Code 029:040
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash aff5883ef337151940e335b53320c1525c9487a9ab2f195fc7cf92d0c18a0356
Source Schema Version 1.1
System of Records https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-05-11/pdf/2012-11487.pdf
Temporal 2003-01-01T05:00:00Z/2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

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