Academic Portfolio

October 15, 2008 4:14 PM

Is there such a thing as an off-the-shelf electronic academic portfolio system?

One of my clients, an academic, is changing jobs. The new institution is requiring her to provide similar information but in different formats. This means I get to do a lot of cutting and pasting. Apparently this is not uncommon. X institution wants details of publications by order of DEST category. Y Association wants lists of grants by order of amount, then year. Z Faculty wants grants listed by grant fund, then by researcher and publications by order of year, and so on.

So I'm thinking of writing up a database for her, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel.

posted by b33j to Education (5 answers total)

There's a few different things -

QUT has an ePortfolios project which I think uses bits of open source software (not 100% sure) http://www.eportfoliopractice.qut.edu.au/information/

Other universities use ResearchMaster, which is usually administered by the Research office.

There's also something called PIER - http://www.piersoftware.com/

Whether these get to the level of detail you are looking for, I'm not sure but they're a good start. Search also for research administration software.
posted by wingless_angel at 4:41 PM on October 15, 2008

My university is in the process of trying Mahara, an open source e-portfolio tool. I don't know if this fits with what you're looking for, though - it's a fairly new system.
posted by Paragon at 4:46 PM on October 15, 2008

My grad school used Plone.
posted by chez shoes at 4:52 PM on October 15, 2008

Oops, Plone.
posted by chez shoes at 4:52 PM on October 15, 2008

Response by poster: Thanks for the input. None of these things is exactly what I'm looking for, but they are giving me ideas about how to structure anything I build. Thank you.
posted by b33j at 3:42 PM on October 16, 2008