Activity state viewing and recording system

An activity state general viewing method for keeping track of circumstances and states of activities where a plurality of persons are working in conjunction on said activities, whereby:

• particulars of at least one operation performed on work data stored in a plurality of work data management units are managed as activity information for each of said work data management units,
• states of activities are judged and managed by a state information management unit, including presented and unpresented contributions by the plurality of persons working on each activity;
• data representative of particulars of a sequence of operations performed on a specific activity are extracted by an activity information tracing unit on a basis of activity information managed for each of said work data management units;
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• relative contributions of each of the plurality of persons working on each activity are determined, including presented and unpresented contributions, by a relative contribution calculating unit.

An activity state general viewing program, recorded on a computer-readable recording medium, for keeping track of circumstances and states of activities where a plurality of persons are working in conjunction on said activities,

• said program causing a computer to function as:
• a plurality of work data management units for storing work data representing contents of the activities;
• an information processing unit for processing work data in said work data management units in compliance with request from users;
• a state information management unit for judging and managing the state of each activity, including presented and unpresented contributions;
• a plurality of activity information management units, one provided for each of said work data management units, for managing, as activity information, particulars of at least one operation performed on work data stored in a corresponding one of said work data management units;
• a relative contribution calculating unit for calculating the relative contribution of each of a plurality of persons working on each activity, including presented and unpresented contributions;
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• an activity information tracing unit for extracting, on a basis of activity information separately managed by the plurality of said activity information management units, data representative of particulars of a sequence of operations performed on a specific activity.