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 idle bit 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.
 
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Forrester
Sent: 11 July 2006 17:27
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: 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 Burden
Sent: 10 July 2006 12:44
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: [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. I’ve 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

 

 

 

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