| Abstract: | Duke University's dean of arts and sciences commissioned the Faculty Database System (FDS) as an institutional content management system after learning of the tool's initial implementation in the mathematics department. The tool's ability to address several ongoing operational needs involving faculty curriculum vitae (CV) and related staff and graduate student data was matched by its ease of use and syndication capabilities. Specifically, FDS was conceived as a means of providing the following functionalities: - Single point of entry for faculty CV data - Up-to-date departmental Web sites - Templates to standardize display of faculty Web pages - Easy and secure use by faculty and staff - Incentives for faculty to update their CV information on a timely basis - Conduit for faculty access to institutional and external databases (e.g., enterprise directory, PubMed) to use data from reference sources - Discipline-specific formatting conventions - Top-down and bottom-up policies and configurations - Ability to export to different formats and create customized reports - Streamlining of annual faculty evaluation process - Syndication of information across departments and the university - Accommodation of as many hierarchical levels of units as needed - Archive of data for future use and longitudinal reports
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