| ATHENA RESEARCH ASSISTANT |
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| WHAT IS ATHENA. |
 Athena is a light-weight PHP & MySQL note keeper for teachers and students to keep track of their research projects. It allows users to add notes and resource references while working on multiple projects at once. It's purpose is to keep related data grouped and cross-referenced for future use or a possiblity of creating new insight into collected materials. |
| FEATURES |
- Multiuser access, with flexible restrictions eg. allows users to add new projects and notes without access to content owned by others etc.
- PUBLIC RESOURCE AREA, this powerul feature allows harbouring of a resource pool available to all users. Those with access to public resources can add new resources as well as use the existing resources in their projects, by copying them to their own repository.
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| CURRENT STATE OF DEVELOPMENT. |
| December 7 2002
Version 0.1b is only a mile away now, it will sport all of the features mentioned above.
December 2 2002
No version have been released yet.
At the moment Athena is coming out of the planning phase and is entering the early production stage, with sources available by December 10 2002.
To contact Athena crew write to athena@finalbanana.com
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| SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS |
For details on requirements please refer for the documentation.
- Web server
- MySQL database
- PHP 4+
- JavaScript capable browser (but not necessary, check documentation for a list of restrictions)
- Cookies on
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| ATHENA'S FUTURE |
Features considered in the future:
- bibliography format selection
- multi-author capability when entering resource details
- logs allowing administrators to view user activities
- statistics, showing user activity levels
- build in email
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| Last updated December 7 2002 |