Timeline question on building Timeline from Github
Jack Park
Luis Miguel Morillas
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Jack Park
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David Karger
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.
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Jack Park
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David Karger
David,
Thanks for that context.
Ii was familiar with the entire Simile projects when it was first announced at MIT; even built some stuff with it - "way back when".
Today, I'd like to see it work with JSON, but maybe that's just me.
I'm wondering if there exists enough energy to begin modernizing Timeline. My own use case is that of a timeline browser, the events on which are topics in a crowd-curated topic map. I'd like to push the technology.
depends what energy means. enthusiasm certainly. money no.
My research group has continued to work on this path of "easy to
author data interactions." Our current focus is http://mavo.io/
, which is in many ways *much* more powerful than exhibit---it
provides data *editing* as well as data *visualization*---and is
beautifully consistent with modern web technologies. It would
be utterly natural, and useful, to create a timeline web component
and integrate it with Mavo. I have a very clear picture of the
right architecture in my head. And the end result would be a
timeline you could edit in place. However, that wouldn't be
*research*, so it's not something my students can spend time on.
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Jack Park
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Drew
Jodi Schneider
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David Karger
Sadly, I am not aware of any modern tool that does what exhibit
does. Obviously, I have a very clear sense of how to build one,
if we could find the resources to do so. We are working on a new
research project, http://mavo.io/ , that does a lot of amazing
things but does not yet supersede exhibit. It might in a few
years.
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