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Introduction

Please visit The Timeline Consortium website for more detaied information.

Our goal is to create and disseminate a widely-agreed-upon standard for tagging rich but relatively unstructured online information (e.g. Wikipedia, articles, manuscripts, media archives, online course co ntent) for use in rich timeline-style displays. Related calendar standards, disciplinary standards, and language-specific standards exist. Many of these standards are richly descriptive and flexible, but they are largely not interoperable–and they are not being used in mainstream education-oriented or research- oriented timeline software today. The lack of community-driven agreement on a common standard for describing and tagging the kinds of information that timeline tools need to import and then display is presently inhibiting researchers’ and learners’ abilities to understand and compare temporal sequences in pursuits ranging from Big History to Epidemiology to Criminology to Cell Biology.

The Timeline Consortium was founded in 2016 by a group of researchers and technologists from academia and industry, working together.

We are open to new contributors and members. Please contact us through timelineconsortium@gmail.com. We also have a Basecamp channel where we discuss these topics, please contact us if you want to join.

Read more here:

And, for reference, here are some of the Consortium members’ related projects:

Timeline-Standard

Metadata standard for timelines.

We borrow from perio.do, SKOS, and schema.org/event to build a schema for timeline events. We started out with these two objects:

TimelineEvent Object

An occurrence in a sequence, which is usually temporal. It might be a point or a range.

ID

Identifier for the timelineEvent object (This can be an ARK, a DOI, or a local identifier). required

Label

A name for the event. required

Description

A rich-text description of the event. optional

Start

The beginning of the event. The value is usually a Date Time, but it could be something else. required

End

The end of the event for events that are a range. When the event is a point, only "Start" is expected. optional

Timeline Object

A collection of TimelineEvent objects.

id

Identifier for the timeline object (This can be an ARK, a DOI, or a local identifier). required

Label

A name for the timeline. required

TimelineEventList

A list or collecton of timelineEvent objects required

Expanding Basic Definitions

Our plan is to expand the initial basic definions to include the conclusions we came to in our April 26, 2017 Radcliffe meeting. It includes the following topics:

  • Add an uncertainty associated with various metadata values (time, labels, ...)
  • Start and End do not need to be time
  • Use of start interval and end interval, following perio.do definition
  • The standard will be specified as a JSON-LD
  • We have not decided one how to define geospatial coverage in the Timeline standard, but we want to borrow from what already exists

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