Timeline JS seems useful:
https://timeline.knightlab.com
Here's an example:
https://timeline.knightlab.com/examples/user-interface/index.html

However, if the desideratum is to separate the data layer from the
visualization layer I don't see that Timeline JS does that.

-Jodi

On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 12:00 PM Drew <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Per you comment "If nothing better has been created in the past 13
> years...", are you aware of any tool(s) that could be used to re-build the
> President's Simile Exhibit that would be modern? More modern? All of the
> features in that demo - map, timeline, facets, search, tables - via modern
> technologies seem elusive.
>
> Thanks
> Drew
>
> On Sunday, December 20, 2020 at 11:41:16 AM UTC-6 [email protected]
> wrote:
>
>> Simile Timeline is 13 years old and has never been modernized.  If
>> nothing better has been created in the past 13 years, that's a sad
>> indication of the state of modern software.   The primary reason for the
>> continued existence of Simile Timeline is its use as a component in Simile
>> Exhibit.  Simile Exhibit *has* had a bit of maintenance and modernization.
>> But it is still dependent on Timeline, and indeed timeline is one of the
>> main pieces of cruft holding Exhibit back from further modernization.   For
>> example, Exhibit has been detached from dependence on the (ancient) Simile
>> Ajax library you dug up, but Timeline still depends on it.  So when Exhibit
>> loads Timeline it has to do some wacky stuff to interface with Simile Ajax.
>> On 12/20/2020 10:40 AM, Jack Park wrote:
>>
>> Hola Luis,
>>
>> Thanks for asking.
>>
>> My intention is to build a server application which has the capability to
>> display massive timelines.
>>
>> I am left with this question, given that the documentation pages don't
>> exist for the recent version, only the previous version: what, really, is
>> the point of building in the first place?
>> Perhaps it's the case that I don't need to build it, even though the
>> codebase includes a build.xml (perhaps left over from the prior versions).
>>
>> Thanks
>> Jack
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 12:36 AM Luis Miguel Morillas <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> What do you mean? Do you want to build a new release from gh repo? [1]
>>> or do you want to use exhibit timeline in github pages?
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://github.com/simile-widgets/exhibit/wiki/Deploying-a-New-Version-to-Prod
>>>
>>> El dom, 20 de diciembre de 2020 5:43, Jack Park <[email protected]>
>>> escribió:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone recently built Timeline from the github repo?
>>>> I am finding missing artifacts, which provokes build failures.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Jack
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