I am doing something similar with WordPress and Gravity forms ( http://www.gravityforms.com/). I am working on a plugin for wordpress that will let you embed a timeline into a wordpress page and then configure it to use content from the form responses and posts in the site. This way the data stays with me on my server.
On Wednesday, July 10, 2013 10:39:14 AM UTC-4, Andrew Taylor wrote: > > Hi all, > > For some time I've been experimenting with using Google Docs forms to > generate data for spreadsheets . I have used one in the past to get > students to create metadata for their art images (similar to crowd-sourcing > already), and for the past through years have used a form to keep a log of > what I accomplish at my job. > > Point is, I rant through the tutorial for creating a timeline that > references a spreadsheet. I created a timeline for an early Jazz band, > then was thinking that I might try to start a crowd-sourced project to > build a timeline for the 20s recordings by jazz bands. > > I have a decent source for data in the Red Hot Jazz Archive ( > redhotjazz.com, an old-school non-database website) and a discussion > group of aficionados who might participate (many of them older and perhaps > having limited tech experience). > > Have any of you used Google Forms as an interface to enter timeline data? > > Regards, > > Andrew Taylor > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
