[sword-devel] Collaborative Timeline Project

[Ben Morgan]

An existing time line project (imaginatively titled Timeline) is at
http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/

Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events.
It is open source under the BSD license and uses XML or JSON.

An example they have is the religious timeline at
http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/examples/religions/religions.html
This is a BIG example containing jewish and christian history.

If you could hook it up to a wiki like interface, this would enable
collaboration

-- 
God Bless,
Ben
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove
all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln

On 10/3/06, Gabriel M. Beddingfield <gabriel at teuton.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, October 2, 2006 8:17 pm, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> >
> > Categories might include: Literature Authorship Date, General Historical
> > Event, Reigning Government, Famous Person Lifetime, War, etc.
> >
> > These submissions would populate a database which could be viewed by
> > panning and zooming on a timeline, and checking categories to hide or
> > show.
>
> A lot of that data is already cached in wikipedia.  I wonder if there
> would be a way to mine those 'submissions' and index them the way you're
> describing (by date and category).
>
> Some possibly helpful links:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Database_download
> http://download.wikimedia.org/
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Database_download/archive1
>
> Peace,
> Gabriel
>
> --
>                G a b r i e l   M   B e d d i n g f i e l d
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel at crosswire.org
> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel
> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.crosswire.org/pipermail/sword-devel/attachments/20061003/6ca8e17c/attachment-0001.html