HI All, I have gone ahead and made a rough demo of scraping microdata from a web page and generating a timeline, with the goal of making this a simple think to include in a site (WordPress for me).
I have realised, though, that the initial approach is not very pretty or useful. There are two problems - the first is choosing the right scale, and the second is that the labels in my data are too big for the default configuration so the text for time-points is truncated. I am wondering if there are any examples of how to configure timeline to adjust automatically to varying timespans (from days or hours up to centuries) and for text of different lengths. Regards, Peter On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Peter Sefton <[email protected]> wrote: > That's the site - none of those demos worked for me six hours ago - but > they do now, maybe a network issue at my end? > > Meanwhile I have been working on using timeline, I'll look at Exhibit once > I get that running. > > > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:10 PM, David Karger <[email protected]> wrote: > >> which site? >> you want simile-widgets.org/exhibit >> as far as I know it has been stable on all platforms for several years. >> >> >> On 3/27/2012 6:25 PM, Peter Sefton wrote: >> >> Thanks David - I just went to and looked at some Exhibit examples using >> Chrome 17.0.963.83 Safari 5.1.4 on OS X 10.7.3 and the only one that works >> is Flags of the World. Is this code considered stable and usable? Am I >> missing something? >> >> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:26 AM, David Karger <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> 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. " >>>> ] >>>> } >>>> }, >>>> >>>> >> >> >> -- >> >> Peter Sefton +61410326955 [email protected] http://ptsefton.com >> Gmail, Twitter & Skype name: ptsefton >> >> >> > > > -- > > Peter Sefton +61410326955 [email protected] http://ptsefton.com > Gmail, Twitter & Skype name: ptsefton > > > -- Peter Sefton +61410326955 [email protected] http://ptsefton.com Gmail, Twitter & Skype name: ptsefton -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en.
