ecReport: a collaborative web tool for reporting R&D projects

Abstract

Producing periodic progress reports of collaborative R&D projects is usually a tedious, error-prone and costly task that is mainly performed combining a set of isolated tools and manual processes. We present the ecReport system, which is a configurable reporting tool that is especially focused in collaborative EC-funded R&D projects, although it can be used for other purposes. This tool is based on the use of ontologies about different aspects of this type of projects (people, organisations, deliverables, etc.), and gives full support to the acquisition of data for periodic project reports and to the generation of reports from this data, and allows publishing this data in open formats like RDF.