SIMILE | Timeline

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- Timeline

# Timeline

Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events. It is like Google Maps for time-based information. Below is a live example that you can play with. Pan the timeline by dragging it horizontally.

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.

## Live Examples

- Religion Timelines: recommended to be viewed on a huge monitor, 2000 years of Jewish and Christianity history, all mashed up, scrolling side-by-side.
- Dinosaurs: recommended to be viewed on a huge monitor, showing Timeline working on geological scale events.
- ... and more ...

## Feedback / Contribute

- Send questions/comments/ideas/discussions/etc. to our mailing list (archive/sign-up)
- Contribute to Timeline's wiki
- Log bugs/issues in our issue tracker (sign-up)

## Documentation

- Static documentation, for now...
- ... but we really wish to transfer it over to the wiki so that it can be better maintained
- Code on SVN repository

## Licensing

Timeline is open source software and is licensed under the BSD license.

## Credits

This software is sponsored by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and is maintained by the SIMILE project, in particular:

- David François Huynh, dfhuynh at csail.mit.edu