Yes, you can definitely use timeline directly. It does require more
javascript programming and data manipulation than using exhibit for the
same thing. The home site is here: http://simile-widgets.org/timeline/
On 4/19/2012 12:11 PM, Paige Morgan wrote:
I guess I have one further question: IS it possible to host Timeline,
without hosting the rest of Exhibit? I'd gotten the idea that it was
possible from instructions on pages like this one:
http://simile-widgets.googlecode.com/svn/timeline/tags/2.2.0/src/webapp/api/timeline-api.js
-- which are duplicated in a number of places on the web. That was why
I'd been trying to do it this way in the first place.
Thanks again,
Paige
On Apr 19, 7:55 am, Paige Morgan<[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks so much, Steve and David, for writing back so quickly. I really
appreciate it.
David, I hadn't realized that my code was mixing up Exhibit and
Timeline, but I understand the "wrapper" relationship between the two,
so I can see why mixing them up with cause trouble.
Unfortunately, including the Exhibit API (as in the tutorial) with my
current variables to try and force local usage of Timeline doesn't
work (my code is below). As you said, it was only a possibility, and
not a certainty.
I know that Exhibit 3.0 Staged is still in beta, and as such, I'm not
sure I have enough experience to get it going -- so I think that
hosting Exhibit 2.0, and running Timeline 2.3.1, which I'll grab per
Steve's repost of Kihara's reply to Milhouse, is probably the way to
go. Is that correct?
Steve, I hope that my working through this ends up being useful to
your issues as well.
Best,
Paige
<script href="http://trunk.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/api/exhibit-
api.js">
var Timeline_ajax_url="http://paigemorgan.net/timeline/src/ajax/api/
simile-ajax-api.js"
var Timeline_urlPrefix='http://paigemorgan.net/timeline/timeline_js/';
Timeline_parameters='bundle=true';
</script>
<script src="http://paigemorgan.net/timeline/src/webapp/api/timeline-
api.js?bundle=true"
type="text/javascript">
</script>
<link rel="exhibit/data" type="text/tsv" ex:valueSeparator=";"
href="egypt.txt"/>
On Apr 19, 6:21 am, David Karger<[email protected]> wrote:
Paige, I'm glad you found the tutorial useful. The problem you're
having is that you are inappropriately "mixing" exhibit and timeline.
Timeline (as a standalone framework) is a lot like google maps: it's a
developer library where your own page needs to make a bunch of
javascript api calls to tell the timeline what to do and how to load its
data. Exhibit is a user-friendly *wrapper* for timeline (and google
maps) that takes care of loading the data and invoking the underlying
developer wrapper. Your web page is written for exhibit usage: it
includes a link to the data and expects the library to "take care of
it". If you want to go this route and avoid writing all that javascript
yourself, you need to include the exhibit api (as per my tutorial) and
its time extension to drive the timeline.
I'm not certain, but if you set timeline variables as you currently do,
then Exhibit's time-extension *might* be smart enough to load your local
copy of timeline. If not, you may need to host a local copy of Exhibit
as well.
-David
On 4/18/2012 11:59 PM, Paige Morgan wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to get Simile installed locally, using the full
timeline_source_2.3.0.zip, so that I can customize the units of time.
The wiki and other resources pointed me to these instructions, which
are also contained in the timeline-api.js file
http://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/source/browse/timeline/trunk/...
Those instructions suggest that I ought to be including the following
lines of code in my<head> section.
<script>
Timeline_ajax_url="http://paigemorgan.net/timeline/src/ajax/api/simile-
ajax-api.js"
Timeline_urlPrefix='http://paigemorgan.net/timeline/timeline_js/';
Timeline_parameters='bundle=true';
</script>
<script src="http://paigemorgan.net/timeline/src/webapp/api/timeline-
api.js?bundle=true"
type="text/javascript">
</script>
I am -- but I'm not having any luck loading timeline. The page I'm
trying to load is here:http://www.paigemorgan.net/timelines/demo.html
I tried it with a simple timeline from David Karger's really great
tutorial herehttp://people.csail.mit.edu/karger/Exhibit/CAR/HandsOn/
-- which is where I originally learned to use Simile Timeline -- but
no luck.
I've checked the archives for this group, and googled creatively --
but I'm not finding any solutions. Can anyone here suggest anything? I
would be tremendously grateful.
Thanks,
Paige
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