[sword-devel] Collaborative Timeline Project

[Harley Pebley]

>Here's an idea for someone to run with...
>
>As the subject line suggests, a place where people can submit
>categorized events.
>
>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.
>
>Just a thought.  It would be incredibly useful to me personally, to help
>put things in perspective.

Cool idea!

Looks like most of the hard work has already been done: 
http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/
Now you just need a database back end, a way to update it and a server.

Harley Pebley