Tools to create Timeline and Map Timedata
• Visual Technique for Temporal Information *****
• http://www.joeparry.com/blog/VisualisationTechniquesForTemporalInformation.pdf
This document is a high level overview of graphical representations of temporal information. It is intended to be a short personal guide to the relevant literature and applications. It is intended to encourage further reading and research, rather than being a definitive review. Within the of historic evolution of timelines3 the first linear axis timelines appeared around the mid 18th century.
• TimeMap ****
• http://www.timemap.net/
TimeMap TMJava is a novel mapping applet which generates complete interactive maps with a few simple lines of html. It provides a way of easily enriching web pages with historical or contemporary information that goes far beyond static jpg map images. It's easy for beginners, yet provides completely customisable power and distributed backend database connectivity for the expert. It's free for personal use. Open (+) for more.
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About TimeMap
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TimeMap TMJava is a novel mapping applet which generates complete interactive maps with a few simple lines of html. It provides a way of easily enriching web pages with historical or contemporary information that goes far beyond static jpg map images. It's easy for beginners, yet provides completely customisable power and distributed backend database connectivity for the expert. It's free for personal use.
TimeMap's unique time-handling provides an engaging and intuitive method of delivering historical, community, government, research and business information. Combining mapping and the time dimension gives new ways of visualising urban growth, the spread of empires, heritage sites, environmental change, weather patterns, traffic flow, earthquakes, mobile network faults, and much more ― ranging in time scale from millions of years to seconds.
TimeMap time-filters and animates maps on the fly, connects to datasets anywhere on the web and can search for and load thousands of local maps dynamically as you zoom and pan. TimeMap can filter huge datasets server-side and download only the data needed, or work standalone off a CD. It adapts legends dynamically as scale changes and generates hyperlinks on-the-fly between objects on the map and web pages, and is completely customisable with XML. Yet the applet weighs in at only 350K!
TimeMap's Windows tool, TMWin, allows you to build and publish interactive maps on your web site without any programming skills. You can use your own data or map data from the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative's (www.ecai.org ) data clearinghouse.
For advanced users
TimeMap can be extensively customised with XML and JavaScript. TMJava source code is available to members of the TimeMap Open Source Community(see under Community).
The
TimeMap project team can provide rapid response support to user, from neophyte to IT professional, as well as a full range of custom database and TimeMap programming services.
• Times series data *
• http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/timesearcher/
"Widespread interest in discovering features and trends in time- series has generated a need for tools that support interactive exploration. We have built a prototype environment for interactive querying and exploration of time-series data. Queries are built using timeboxes: a powerful graphical, direct-manipulation metaphor for the specification of queries over time-series datasets. These timeboxes support interactive formulation and modification of queries, thus speeding the process of exploring time-series data sets and guiding data mining. The prototype includes windows for timebox queries, individual time-series, and details-on-demand. Other features include drag-and-drop support for query-by-example and graphical envelopes for displaying the extent of the entire data set and result set from a given query."

open-source, possibility of getting access to the code.
• Timeline Builder
• http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/timelines/
Timeline Builder allows you to easily create and manage online timelines. You do not need to know how to build a Web page, set up a database to store entries, or do any of the other technical tasks that are normally required to produce interactivity on the Internet. Timeline Builder will take care of all of these elements for you.
• ThinkPort
• http://timeline.thinkport.org/
A really simply, not to say basic dynamic timeline generator allowing you to select beginning and end points and add dates and events—along with special images.
• Timeline *****
• 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. Just like Google Maps, Timeline can be used with zero software installation, server-side or client-side. And like Google Maps, you can populate Timeline with data by pointing it to an XML file (here is the data file for the timeline above). But Timeline is not limited to only that means of loading data; for instance, we have just added JSON support.
Timeline is open source software and is licensed under the
BSD license.

AJAX
• Timeline creator ***
• http://timeline.cer.jhu.edu/index.htm
This tool allows individuals without multimedia development skills to
create an interactive timeline for teaching or presentation purposes that can be published on the World Wide Web or displayed directly from a computer. The interface can display up to six simultaneous timelines to compare and contrast various "events" with descriptive text and digital images.
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• Timeline Tool***
• http://www.learningtools.arts.ubc.ca/timeline.htm
The timeline tool is a web based learning object template which allows an instructor to quickly construct an interactive timeline with audio and visual effects. The finished timeline can serve as a re-useable learning object which can be easily distributed and shared over the web. This learning object template is built in Flash, PHP and XML.
http://www.learningtools.arts.ubc.ca/timeline/timeline.php?seed=188166868
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• Timelinecreator ***
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/timelinecreator/
This tool allows individuals without multimedia development skills to create an interactive timeline for teaching or presentation purposes that can be published on the World Wide Web or displayed directly from a computer.
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• Easytimeline
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EasyTimeline
Wikimedia proposes some functionalities that can help building timedata. The EasyTimeline feature produces an embedded image from wikitext. The image can be a one-dimensional diagram (horizontally or vertically), or a two-dimensional one.
• The Historical Event Markup and Linking project
• http://www.heml.org/samples/blocks/heml/
The
Historical Event Markup and Linking project provides a means of coordinating and navigating disparate historical materials on the internet. It includes
1. an
XML schema for historical events which describes the events' participants, dates, location and keywords; the schema associates these with source materials in print or on the web.
2. XSLT stylesheets that combine conforming documents and generate lists, maps and graphical timelines out of them.
SVG and XML
• Timeline creator in flex 2
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/lignedetemps/
Timeline Creator in Flex 2 help you to create and view timelines. Timeline Creator is also a collaborative teaching aid. You can create any kind of timeline from 1 second to millions of years.
Project Admins: brun_o, lignedetemps, matroch, mmartel, onadaa, stevequirion, tdman 
Operating System: OS Independent (Written in an interpreted language) 
License: GNU General Public License (GPL) 
Category: Education, Genealogy, History