Anthro theory timeline
In my Copious Free Time I’ve been playing around with “The SIMILE Project’s”:http://simile.mit.edu/ excellent open-source tool “timeline”:http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/ — its very easy to use (although I haven’t used it much so far) and so I knocked up a flashy ‘web2.0′ time line of books written by anthropologists in the 1970s — you can see the “very rough anthro theory timeline here”:http://alex.golub.name/timelinetest.html. I think its incredibly cool and that we should fill in All Relevant Dates going back to _League of the Iroquois_. But then again that just might be me. So… how would _you_ populate it?
Alex Golub is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He studies mining and petroleum development in Papua New Guinea, as well as American culture in to the online game World of Warcraft. You can contact him at rex@savageminds.org
Is there any way to allow public editing? Seems like a valuable tool, especially if collaboration is allowed.
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This is way too lowtech to have some interface for people to edit, but you can make one yourself quite easily — the instructions are at
http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/docs/create-timelines.html
and the data file for my timeline is at
http://alex.golub.name/example1.xml
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The idea is really interesting, but it does not seem to work for me on firefox or IE……. comes up empty!
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Same for me. Worked a few days ago.
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