An existing time line project (imaginatively titled Timeline) is at <br><a href="http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/">http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/</a><br><br>Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events.
<br>It is open source under the BSD license and uses XML or JSON.<br><br>An example they have is the religious timeline at <br><a href="http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/examples/religions/religions.html">http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/examples/religions/religions.html
</a><br>This is a BIG example containing jewish and christian history.<br><br>If you could hook it up to a wiki like interface, this would enable collaboration<br><br>-- <br>God Bless,<br>Ben<br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<br>"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/3/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Gabriel M. Beddingfield</b> <<a href="mailto:gabriel@teuton.org">gabriel@teuton.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Mon, October 2, 2006 8:17 pm, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:<br>><br>> Categories might include: Literature Authorship Date, General Historical<br>> Event, Reigning Government, Famous Person Lifetime, War, etc.<br>
><br>> These submissions would populate a database which could be viewed by<br>> panning and zooming on a timeline, and checking categories to hide or<br>> show.<br><br>A lot of that data is already cached in wikipedia. I wonder if there
<br>would be a way to mine those 'submissions' and index them the way you're<br>describing (by date and category).<br><br>Some possibly helpful links:<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Database_download">
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Database_download</a><br><a href="http://download.wikimedia.org/">http://download.wikimedia.org/</a><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Database_download/archive1">
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Database_download/archive1</a><br><br>Peace,<br>Gabriel<br><br>--<br> G a b r i e l M B e d d i n g f i e l d<br><br><br>_______________________________________________
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