We want to make all the world's content more accessible, interoperable and valuable. Some call it Web 2.0, Web 3.0, the Semantic Web or the Giant Global Graph - we call our piece of it Calais.

Calais is a rapidly growing toolkit of capabilities that allow you to readily incorporate state-of-the-art semantic functionality within your blog, content management system, website or application.

Web Widget for Visualizing Temporal Data

How can you show the details of a history visually? Time provides one obvious dimension. What else can you show to tell the story? Most timeline charts use a 2D representation, time x {place or theme}. Some are more successful in integrating additional dimensions.
This page is an annotated visual gallery of some timeline designs from their origin to today. Although time is one-dimensional, telling some story of history visually is much more complex, and it is quite instructive to see together how different graphic designers have aproached this problem.

Ugly but interesting!

"This Internet Timeline begins in 1962, before the word ‘Internet’ is invented. The world’s 10,000 computers are primitive, although they cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. They have only a few thousand words of magnetic core memory, and programming them is far from easy."

Wanted to see a meta-timeline of Wikipedia timelines...so I made one today! (Still some text encoding to fix, etc.)

oh my god, yes

"Timelines seem to me a format ideally suited to the Web.
-browsable
-editable
-compact
-permits many offsite links
-object of contemplation


Maximising diversity was a goal, because the timeline makes a better object of contemplation if it brings together lines of thought that are normally segregated.

Boiling down more-complex issues to seven words is an art I've been exploring for several years in my weblog-headlines. [eg]

Some time-periods were unusually rich (the Sixties, the Cambrian) others sparse (hominid evolution, galactic evolution)."

scroll down to the table of geologic time