Peter, I don't know of anyone who has tried this.
I have been thinking of something related: feeding microdata into
Exhibit, which offers timeline as one of many possible visualizations,
but would also allow for lists, maps, charts, etc. Exhibit is already
architected to support import from a broad variety of formats, and
adding another is easy. I think that would offer more general utility
than just feeding to timeline. I don't expect to get to it soon, so
you're welcome to tackle it if you like.
On 3/27/2012 5:21 PM, Peter Sefton wrote:
Hi all,
I am wondering if anyone has looked at using HTML5 microdata as a data
source to feed a timeline? I was thinking about this for doing
historical timelines generated from the text in a document, but then I
realised it would have broader application, for example, in my CV
(http://ptsefton.com/cv) I already have embedded microdata for the job
events. Microdata is a standard way to add semantics to HTML, and
Schema.org provides a documented vocabulary.
If nobody else has tackled this I will go ahead and have a go at
making an adaptor to the timeline widget.
Peter
When extracted into JSON the Schema.org-in-microdata looks like this:
{
"type": [
"http://schema.org/Event/Job";
],
"properties": {
"startDate": [
"2008"
],
"endDate": [
"2011-03"
],
"jobTitle": [
"Manger, Software Research and\n Development Laboratory"
],
"description": [
"Australian Digital Futures\n Institute, University of
Southern Queensland",
"With the management team,\n established the Australian
Digital Futures Institute (ADFI) at the University\n of Southern
Queensland. I built-up a technical team with high-level software\n
development capabilities and established the major centre in Australia
for\n expertise in Institutional Repository technology. Provided
strategic advice\n to the university on matters related to eLearning
and eResearch and brought\n in circa $1M in external funding for
2008-2010. "
]
}
},
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