Timeline

The timeline displays either everything time-bound or is a display format for a specific component, like Events. If there is only one timeline per page, there must be elaborate settings to configure what is shown on the timeline.

Timelines

Basic timeline

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Gallery timeline (timeline with a gallery of events)

See also Gallery

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  Events timeline

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  Settings

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  Textual gallery timeline

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  Items (works) timeline

Family timeline

See also Family tree

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  Compact family timeline

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  Family timeline with images

Correspondence timeline

To be developed. See also Correspondence as it develops.

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Controls

For a person

• Add event
  • Birth, death and other basic events
  • Other significant event
• Settings
  • Show
    • Own events
    • Events of other people (configure)
    • News events
    • Works
• Search (filter)

Special content

BiographySampo extracts sentences about events in the Finnish National Biographies. They contain structured information about the related actors and the date. These sentences can be read via SPARQL and arranged on a timeline. The following is a scenario of a crowdsourcing interface to turn those sentences into structured data.

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