Book Mapping

Book Mapping is an organizational device used at the Traveller RPG Wiki to document publications.

• It's a combination of layout, technique, and hyperlinking used to make citations and OTU research easier.

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Description (Specifications)

The Book Mapping technique is simply a way of collecting and sorting information from sources. It helps a researcher to collect the important information from a source, collate it, and sort it into important categories.

Library Data subheadings have three primary gradations and numerous sub-subheadings. The three primaries are:

1. Selected Library Data (Public)
2. Selected Library Data (Secret)
3. Selected Library Data (Automated)

Selected Library Data (Public)

This is the easiest category: Anything can go here. I try to select the most important main themes, topics f interest, and related information from an article. If the list gets too long, I start to subdivide the topics into additional sub-subcategories.

• Please see T5 Core Rules for a massive book, chocked full of hard data... that is still a work in progress as it is mined.
  

CODE:

=== [[Library Data|Library Data Entries]] (Public) ===
# [[TBD]] 

Selected Library Data (Secret)

This subheading isn't used much, but some publications will share secret (...for the referee only) information.

• Please see the Imperial Encyclopedia entry for an example.

CODE:

=== [[Library Data|Library Data Entries]] (Secret) ===
# [[TBD]] 

{{Secret}}

Selected Library Data (Automated)

You don't have to anything to make this subheading work Just insert it into the Description (Specifications) section and it will give you crosslinked material from the references. It won't give you everything and 'key word searches,' 'what links here,' an other kinds of searches will reveal other useful information. CODE:

=== [[Library Data|Library Data Entries]] (Automated) ===
{{LibraryEntries}}

Sub-Subcategories

Any number of additional categories can be extracted and split off from the primary three:

• Equipment
• Sectors
• Ships
• Smallcraft
• Vehicles
• Worlds
• etc.

History & Background (Dossier)

The primary goal of book mapping is to cross link Library Data articles from a publication entry to content entries making it easier for a reader to learn more about any particular article.

A secondary reason is to enable research and study of Traveller as a whole through citations and the "what links here" feature allowing researchers and authors to track a particular subject over the many years of Traveller publications.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science