This view of the Pepys Diary Topic Map uses a simple page-per-topic approach, that is that almost every page displays all of the information known about a given topic. Much of the text is clickable, links are shown in blue.
This view of the Pepys Diary Topic Map uses a simple page-per-topic approach, that is that almost every page displays all of the information known about a given topic. Much of the text is clickable, links are shown in blue.
The index page shows all of the topics in the topic map in a sorted list on the right hand side. However, this list is sorted using sort keys which result in all events getting sorted near the top of the list and in chronological order so the sorting may not seem entirely intuitive at the moment.
The left-hand side of the index page shows a topic class hierarchy, which lists all of the types of "thing" described by the topic map. Things are divided into classes, one class can be a subclass (a special kind of) a broader class. For example, "Birth" is a subclass of "Event".
All of the rest of the pages in the topic map have the following layout:
At the top of the page, the header bar provides global navigation
links to the topic map index page, to the
"About" page that gives more
information about this project, and to this help page.
Following this, the name(s) of the topic are displayed followed
by the links to the topic(s) that define the type of the topic,
for example Samuel Pepys
is of type Man. Below this line, the
page is split into two halves showing information as described
below.
NOTE: not all sections are present on
all pages. If there is no relevant information for the current
topic, then a section will be ommitted.
The left half of the page displays the following information:
On the right hand side, the following information is shown: