The Athenaeum is a collaborative knowledge management effort by Noah and Jacob Pederson. It contains shared knowledge, links, and other sources. Some information will be formatted or otherwise distilled. Others will simply be a collection of resources.
## 🏛️ What is an "Athenaeum?"
Taken from ancient Greece, Athenaeums were institutions or places of literary and scientific learning. In the modern day it may refer to libraries, museums, or other cultural centers that focus on literature and the arts.
> **A place for gathering and sharing *knowledge.***
# 🌲Structure
Most new notes go in the `notes/` folder. They only need a title, but should be named consistently. Liberal use of *aliases* are employed to make embedding in sentences easier. This is particularly relevant for notes that have a plural and singular form. In that case, the singular form should be used with an alias for the plural form.
We use [[Index]] notes as a rough classification tool. These notes are *usually* empty (or almost empty) and primarily exist to provide broad categorization. There was a point where every note had a `parent` property, however this model has largely been abandoned as it enforces structure that isn't really necessary and creates drag on creating new notes. Despite this, many notes here do follow that structure and new notes may continue to do add to it when appropriate.
## Getting Started
To get a quick, top-down (but incomplete) view of the project, check out the [[Index]] note.
# 🌱 Purpose
This project is started as an experiment to see how collaborative note-taking in public can be approached. When you're writing for someone else explicitly, it helps with composing more complete and coherent information.
# 📓 Journals
Journals are added on occasion and may contain logs of changes or other linear logging style notes. An effort to annotate who is responsible for a log is made, but often times ignored.
# 📧 Suggestions
The Athenaeum's purpose is to be a store of useful knowledge. Contributions are accepted via [email](mailto:
[email protected]). Note that not every contribution will be added and accepted contributions may be modified. Contributions are licensed under [CC0](https://creativecommons.org/public-domain/cc0/) . Authors agree that their contributions are their own and are shared under the terms of CC0 by submitting them to the above inbox.
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All content on the Athenaeum is licensed under Creative Commons [CC0](https://creativecommons.org/public-domain/cc0/) and may be reproduced and used freely under the terms of that license.
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