Hi
I'd first ask two questions before I can give a more detailed answer (and
in the process make the important division between the source data and the
presentation):
- what information do you have and how do you have it stored? From your
initial post it sounds like it may be new content and so you could place it
anywhere, but if you do have it already stored somewhere that could be
worth exploring rather than having to rework it. As a side question, who
will be contributing content and will it be a finite dataset or ongoing?
- what is the ultimate goal in terms of presentation? Is it a slick feature
on a public website, with implied enhanced interaction?
Here are two examples to stimulate thoughts:
Simile based timeline dynamically pulling in large dataset of Flickr
Commons images using API (rather old I'm afraid, and definitely with a
focus on quantity over quality!) -
http://www.whatsthatpicture.com/vintage-photos/flickr-commons/interactive-timeline
Historypin timeline based on a smaller dataset with a focus on really nice
design and UI -
http://www.historypin.com/project/16602005-remember-timeline/
James
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On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Linda Armitage <[log in to unmask]
> wrote:
> Dear All,
> Where is a good place to start exploring examples of great visual
> timelines? We have used so far a Google spreadsheet adapted via Brian
> Croxall's tutorial:
> http://briancroxall.net/TimelineTutorial/TimelineTutorial.html - for an
> internal application only. A new colleague (Gemma) suggests you MCGers
> would be the ideal people to ask. Any contributions therefore gratefully
> received.
> TIA, Linda
>
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