Neatline

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Demo

The Battle of Chancellorsville

Description

Neatline is a tool to tell stories with maps and timelines. It is a geotemporal exhibit-builder to create maps, image annotations, and narrative sequences from Omeka collections of archives and artifacts, and to connect your maps and narratives with timelines. (Source)

Creator

Scholars’ Lab, University of Virginia Library

Type(s) of DH Tool or Platform

Mapping, Timeline, Visualisation

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Exhibit Editor – Map-based or Image-based environment configuration

Drawing Tool – Flexible annotating tool

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TimelineJS

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Demo

Revolutionary User Interface (1600-2012)

Description

TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines. They can be created using a Google Spreadsheet template. Media can also be from different sources, including Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, Vine, Dailymotion, Google Maps, Wikipedia and SoundCloud. (Source)

Creator

Knight Lab, Northwesthern University

Type(s) of DH Tool or Platform

Timeline, Visualisation

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Data input through Google Spreadsheet

Publishing tool

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Timemapper

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Demo

Medieval Philosophers – Timeliner by okfn

Description

TimeMapper is an open source timeline tool that takes information in a Google spreadsheet and uses it to generate a timeline that can then be published, shared, or embedded on the web. It utilizes components from other open source tools like TimelineJS and Leaflet maps. It is simple to use, but not easily customizable. (Source)

Creator

Open Knowledge Foundation Labs

Type(s) of DH Tool or Platform

Mapping, Timeline, Visualisation

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