A flexible web-based publication database

To allow allocation of resources dependent on reliably determined publication output, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the TU Vienna decided to custom-design a publication database, which later was adopted by the entire university. To make full use of the wealth of information stored in such a database, the chosen concept includes features that support its application as a knowledge management and research documentation system. The development of the database over a period of seven years from a stand-alone tool for collecting evaluation data to its current state as one of the university's knowledge bases is described.