A brief outline of future development

The Time Atlas is a project under development. It will evolve as the idea is implemented. Here is a list of things that will be added to the current version. To implement them will require funding, so nothing will happen quickly.

• Currently adding information affects only the decade pages; all other pages are static images and have to be changed manually by the site administrator. It is planned to couple the appearance of the century pages to the content of the decade pages. Adding information will then change the appearance of both decade and century pages. This will also avoid contradictions between the information shown on decade pages and on century pages.


• The appearance of the countries and regions in the individual civilizations has to be ordered in some way. Currently they appear in the order in which information is added to the database. Ordering them alphabetically is one way of solving this, but there may be other, more logical ways to display relationships between regions.


• As the content grows it will become necessary to offer additional display management tools. Entries are already classified into various categories (state and society, science and discovery, religion, visual arts etc.). It is planned to add category buttons to the display to allow the user to display only entries from selected categories. This will make it possible, for example, to display only entries in the category "Literature".


• I am not an expert on civilizations. I hope to be able to establish an editorial board of experts to oversee the growing content and further development of the Time Atlas.