js/html Timeline widget (and Open Layers for geo)

via http://planetrdf.com/	
http://dannyayers.com/2006/06/30/timelines-and-spacelines

... http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/

"Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based 
events. It is like Google Maps for time-based information."

I posted notice of a similar effort for maps/geo, Open Layers,
to semantic-web@w3.org yesterday, 
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2006Jun/0126.html
(ie. a bit like Google Maps but opensource and standards-friendly).

I'd love to see this wired up to RDF-calendar and iCal data.

http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/docs/create-timelines.html shows the XML 
notation they're currently using: 
http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/docs/example1.xml

The page on 'event sources' 404s at moment, but 
http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/api/scripts/sources.js looks pretty 
simple, could be rewired to consume JSON SPARQL results perhaps, along 
lines of http://torrez.us/archives/2006/02/24/418/ ...

Wonder how well Timeline and Open Layers play together... perhaps a good 
combo for historical geo-tagged data?

Dan

Received on Friday, 30 June 2006 16:00:47 UTC