Timeline

Timeline has graduated! The Timeline project has graduated and moved on with its life. Visit the new home page for more information on how to join the new mailing lists, synch with the new code repositories, issue tracking, etc. Please excuse our mess during the transition.

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.

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Related Projects

Exhibit: a lightweight structured data publishing framework that is entirely Javascript-based—you can make nice time lines and maps without ever touching a database or even setting up a web server.

Documentation

Static documentation

Old Timeline wiki

New Timeline wiki

Licensing

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

Credits

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