Timelines and Temporal Information
Simile Timeline
Ajax (dhtml) timeline code.
http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/
Primary data provision format is json but there are parsers for a couple of other formats such as RDF. Details of basic experimentation experience by RP at:
http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-help/2007-October/000037.html
Timeline + Geo
Tools that integrate the (simultaneous) display of geographical and temporal information.
Simile Timeline + js map
See this (very) recent thread:
which references this example:
http://www.oe-files.de/gmaps/usgseq.html
Timemap
(Feb 2008) TimeMap? is a Javascript library to facilitate using Google Maps with a SIMILE timeline. The library allows you to load one or more datasets in JSON or KML onto both a map and a timeline simultaneously. By default, only items in the visible range of the timeline are displayed on the map.
http://code.google.com/p/timemap/
Mapping
Various well-known js maps (google, yahoo etc) but most of these are proprietary. Would much to prefer to use a fully open system. One option is to code against an abstracted api such as http://mapstraction.com/
Open Providers of JS Map
- Open Layers: http://www.openlayers.org/
General Presentation
Exhibit
http://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/
Exhibit has some similarities to what we wish to do (at least on the presentation side of things). After specifying lists of similar items in a lightweight (and fairly unconstrained) json-based data format you can display the data using their js code and an html file in the following ways (see original docs for more info):
- List/Table
- Timeline (using the simile timeline)
- On a map (using google maps)
We should aim to be reusing Exhibit and the rest of the simile-toolset as much as possible. Our aim is to spur reuse plus integration from outside.
