History of the Book by Kate Martinson.
From the webpage:
This website consists of information relating to Art 43 – The History of the Book. Participants should consider this site as a learning tool for the class. It will contain updated documents, images for reference, necessary links, class announcements and other information necessary for participation in the course. It will be constantly modified throughout the semester. Questions or problems should be directed to Kate Martinson, or in the event of technical difficulties, to the Help Desk.
A large number of links to images and other materials on writing and book making around the world. From cuneiform tablets to electronic texts.
I encountered it while looking for material on book indexing.
Useful for studying the transmission of and access to information. Which may influence how you design your topic maps.
Grossly oversimplified but consider the labor involved in writing/accessing information on a cuneiform tablet, on a scroll, in a movable type codex or in electronic form.
At each stage the labor becomes less and the amount of recorded information (not the same as useful information) goes up.
Rather than presenting more information to a user, would it be better for topic maps to present less? And/or to make it difficult to add more information?
What if FaceBook offered a filter to exclude coffee, pictures not taken by the sender, etc.? Would that make it a more useful information stream?