Fantastic tip! Thanks
At a quick glance it looks like a really useful widget! It allows
you to use normal javascript to create all the parameters for the
timeline and then loads up an .xml fileto populate the timeline.
I've got some suitable xml time based data with descriptions etc and
these can link to this GUI representation.....
At 12:21 +0000 16/11/06, Amber Thomas wrote:
>It's not just geospatial representations of data, either ...
>
>D-space has a "timeline" widget that plots data items against a time axis
>http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/ JFK assassination
>imagine what you could do with an aggregated collection of history papers on
>the same topics
>
>A couple more examples:
>History of religion
>http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/examples/religions/religions.html
>Dinosaurs
>http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/examples/dinosaurs/dinosaurs2.html
>
>Worth having a look at the other SIMILE projects too, they're not all just
>for d-space
>
>
>Amber
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