[topicmapmail] newbie question on PSI

[William Stewart]

Could you give me some orientation please...

I am designing a historical timeline based website
that as well as "periods" would contain , people,
artefacts, concepts etc in fairly obvious
associations.
In general I would want people to be able to add in
any period they want. A period can be a year e.g.
476BCE or a century e.g. C19 or a millenium etc. 

It would seeem natural to make the periods topics so
that maps could be merged. It is sensible enough to
have a definition of how a year (say) is defined e.g.
begins at midnight of Dec 31 of so and so calendar
etc. and this would be in the subject indicator

My question, I expect you may have guessed, is do I
really need a separate web page for every single year
in order to be able to quote a subject identifier. It
seems this problem would merge in any quantitative
situation where there can be a single generic
definition and a large number numerically generated
examples that one whiches to distinguish for merging. 

I hope this makes sense as I am new to Topic Maps -Can
someone tell me how to tackle the problem please ?
Bill Stewart  

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