One of our colleges wants to create a database which staff can use to record information about areas of interest and institutions and countries they are working with outside of our own. The idea is that other staff within the college would be able to search on something like "France" and find all the staff who have connections with that country - the criteria are
1- it is automatically available to college staff (they already have access to a blackboard staff only organisation for the college)
2- It should be self-maintaining in that staff make and edit their own entries but can only view, not edit, other peoples entries
3- The entries are text searchable for any word appearing in any entry
4- Simple to use and ideally managed by blackboard or institutional login (ie users dont have to set up an external account somewhere in the cloud) It all needs to be accessed from the web but securely (hence the notion of using blackboard)
5- Free/open source or very low one off cost
I have explored using wiki's, google docs, Zoho and the like but they all seem to fall down on at least one part of the criteria I wondered if anyone has ever done anything like this in or out of blackboard
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