And another one I just stumbled across - DPLA have a nice one that's not
just presentational but acts as an alternative interface into their
collections (or rather their content providers' collections).
e.g. http://dp.la/timeline?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=daguerre#/?year=1839
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On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Mia <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I'm a bit late to the discussion, but some people like Tiki-Toki (
> http://www.tiki-toki.com/) or Neatline's timelines + maps combination (
> http://neatline.org/).
>
> A lot depends on the final audience and on whether you've got an existing
> set of content you'd like to re-use rather than re-creating within new
> software. For example, Viewshare now works with content published as JSON
> but that's only useful if you can easily publish data from spreadsheets or
> collections systems in that format.
>
> And to touch on Florian's question, I quite like timelines that give you a
> sense of the density of information at different periods (like the Wellcome
> one, and to an extent, Simile and variants) and cope with 'lumpy' datasets
> as well as neatly thematic information - it's a lot easier to make things
> look nice when events are evenly spaced out across the length of the
> timeline.
>
> Cheers, Mia
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>
> On 16 April 2013 08:36, 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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