Intriguing idea. Mediawiki has an Extension:EasyTimeline -> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EasyTimeline which incidentally includes a link to the HyperHistory project -> http://www.hyperhistory.com/ as a possible answer to your "somewhere in the world of collaborative knowledge production" question.
I had an ambitious idea to produce a map of the world that "debuilds" the built environment through a surf-able globe that renders a snapshot of the planet at any point in History and prehistory. It's OK to dream I suppose ;) I hope you find the links inspiring. v:User:CQ 2009/5/8 <[email protected]>: > Dear Hamideh > Hi > It is a very good idea. I am ready have my contribution to your idea on the > history of Persia or Persian history.I as an Architect and University > Professor have access to some architectural objects. > Good luck > Homayoun > > > 2009/5/8 Said Hamideh <[email protected]> >> >> I trapped an idea this morning and it makes me wonder if something like it >> might exist somewhere in the world of collaborative knowledge production: >> >> A written history of the world that is driven by an online, >> collaboratively-assembled catalogue of the historical objects and sources >> that have formed the histories we have read. Its the idea that if every >> historical claim can be traced back to artefact evidence, then maybe a new >> historical project can begin to rewrite a history that catalogues all >> historical objects housed in public/private collections first, then used to >> fleshed out the narrative afterwards. I'm imagining this done on a wiki, >> where people can simply try to obtain as many available digital photographic >> evidence of vases, scrolls, hand-written accounts, whatever and then >> organizes them into a master chronology within the wiki space. There can >> even be geopositional links that lead readers to find where these objects >> may be located as well as how to access them, who has studied them, >> etc.These images could have trackbacks to certain written accounts that have >> relied on the evidence to fuel their historical narratives. Text in the body >> associates itself directly and immediately the sources which form the >> outline of the proejct. Text is prinicipally used to describe how these >> sources have been used by historians. In later versions of this project, >> master historical narratives could be added as a way to lend "surfability" >> to student audiences. >> >> I credit the inspiration for tihs idea, by the way, to an excellent >> grad-level methods course I took with Sandra Braman in 2006, who had me read >> Hayden White's "Tropics of Discourse". >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikiversity-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikiversity-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l > > _______________________________________________ Wikiversity-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l
