Comments for The Timeline Beta Blog

Comment on Call the exterminator! by ostermmg

ostermmg — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:11:22 +0000

A response from the Simile folks can be found here:

http://bit.ly/cI7o8

Comment on Summer-time at the Timeline by Bryan Alexander

Bryan Alexander — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:19:08 +0000

It was great seeing you at Tacoma! I’m glad your presentation went well.

Comment on Questions asked by noninterchangeable

noninterchangeable — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:19:01 +0000

Noninterchangeable says : I absolutely agree with this !

Comment on KISS improvements for the “new entry” form by Mike

Mike — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:45:55 +0000

See http://timelinebeta.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/questions-asked/#comment-149

Comment on Questions asked by Mike

Mike — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:44:38 +0000

Hi–right now, the code is ColdFusion and is highly dependent upon Sakai web services. I’d be happy to share it, but it would prove very difficult to get running. It will become a full Sakai tool in the near future, but will still require the Sakai framework to make it work.

I’ve seen a couple options for doing this through other tools:

http://tinyurl.com/5cwwro – this example from some folks at Emory uses the Timeline within the larger Exhibit framework from Simile to pull values from a Google Spreadsheet. A very compelling and intersting use case.

A WordPress plugin: http://tinyurl.com/6694du

A blog-driven Timeline: http://www.mytimelines.net/

hCal/vCal Timeline generator: http://www.siatec.net/timeline/

Java Library for generating Timeline code: http://code.google.com/p/gwtsimiletimeline/

Comment on KISS improvements for the “new entry” form by smartino1

smartino1 — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:35:33 +0000

How do I get the above input application for SIMILE Timeline?

Comment on Questions asked by smartino1

smartino1 — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:04:36 +0000

I am looking for an interface to input events into SIMILE Timeline, do you possibly have code that you could share?

Comment on Questions asked by hurlburt

hurlburt — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:48:10 +0000

Hm. I am wondering if maps (geographic maps? or are you thinking of another kind?) wouldn’t have some of the same limitations as the timeline itself, which is to say the potential for forcing false information. A piece of information that doesn’t have a true start point, such as opium use in the 19th century, also doesn’t necessarily have a true geographic point.

We have been tossing around the pros and cons of tag clouds in this context, as a way to combine the linear representation of the timeline with a conceptual representation of the content of the timeline. Before that will be possible, however, we’re going to have to get a search/sort/limit function in place.

Comment on Questions asked by Ron C. de Weijze

Ron C. de Weijze — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:34:00 +0000

You need maps at different points of your timeline. Things that exist on any of those points can be ‘reused’ in different concepts or contexts. The experience changes, and the logic may slightly change. This will become clear when you lay all your maps on top of each other and hold them in against the sun to see through all of them, how they add up. There is your whole story, brand new.

Comment on “When” are we? by Questions asked « The Timeline Beta Blog

Questions asked « The Timeline Beta Blog — Wed, 07 May 2008 04:12:00 +0000

[...] Did students work in groups? Short answer: no. Why is some stuff off “the wall” (above main timeline) The physical timeline corresponded to when the books were written; the students, however, kept posting about the time period when the books supposedly took place. I blogged about this in “When are we?” [...]