Agreed - a lovely thing.
So... hmn. What about plotting news publication times
against a similar timeline? Or...um, crikey, OK - Celebdaq prices graphed
over time against mentions in news stories on bbc.co.uk? Or... blog/search
activity around a programme name (publication times?) against instances of the
programme on telly/radio? (I'm also wondering if you could plot a timeline
of events in the Dr Who universe in a similar way, but I doubt the format would
cope with temporal paradoxes...)
I'm doing an idlebit of thinking about timelines and
chronologically sequenced information at the moment (and how 'time' might sit as
a persistent context to the bbc site) so I'm really interested in SIMILE
Timeline. Does anyone know of any other time period / sequencing tools or
mashups?
I've also got an interesting bit of thinking I'd like to
chuck out to the list for discussion about the future of the BBC on them thar
internets, but I'll put that under a seperate email later
today.
k
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian
ForresterSent: 11 July 2006 17:27To:
backstage@lists.bbc.co.ukSubject: RE: [backstage] BBC TV API to
SIMILE Timeline Mashup
That's a really good way of navigating around schedule.
It would be great to see other channels added to the timeline. I expect you
would need a way to switch channels off and on?
Ian Forrester | BBC World Service [New Media Software
Engineer]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David
BurdenSent: 10 July 2006 12:44To:
backstage@lists.bbc.co.ukSubject: [backstage] BBC TV API to
SIMILE Timeline Mashup
The SIMILE project from MIT has
been coming up with some great semantic web tools. Their latest is
Timeline, a Google Maps for time and date data. Ive put together a quick
demo using the 7 day BBC One schedule off the TV API. Would be relatively
trivial to add in other channels (or other time data).
http://www.daden.co.uk/timeline.html
(looks best under
Firefox)
David
David Burden
www.chatbots.co.uk
