Thanks, Tim. The Eternal Egypt site is beautiful, but alas, I can't find a way to grab their data and reuse it ...
I can see high school students doing projects on Egypt for history classes wanting to download the data and augment it with their own research notes, re-visualize the time line or map in the contexts of their project topics, etc. No readily usable data = not very cool :-) So I had this thought a while ago about elementary school / high school education... A little naive so bear with me. There are chemistry kits, physics kits, etc. for children to get their hands dirty with the sciences, making volcanoes and analyzing pendulums and such. But there is no "data kits" for children to "play" with data, making visualizations, finding trends, spotting relationships, ... If the Web has more reusable data to offer, perhaps we can make such "data kits" and teach children basic data visualization and analysis at an early age ... I know Semantic Web research tends to target serious clients such as scientists, law makers, librarians, etc. but I think there is an opportunity here to leverage the flexibility of SW technologies to make data "play" a lot more fun and easy for children ... Besides, "so easy even children can play with it" would be good PR for the Semantic Web :-) Thoughts? David Tim Churches wrote: > There is a somewhat interesting network visualisation of Egyptian > archeological artefacts which also shows the nature of relationships > between nodes at http://www.eternalegypt.org - and also a timeline (but > not a Simile Timeline). > > BTW, this was listed on the Infosthetics blog at > http://www.infosthetics.com/ which is a great place for anyone > interested in data visualisation - hours can disappear working through > its archive of entries. However I suspect that you are probably all > familiar with the blog, as it listed Simile Timeline mid last year: > http://infosthetics.com/archives/2006/07/interactive_timeline_visualization_ajax.html > > Tim C > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
