history-examples

History Examples

Per the microformats process this is an examples page documenting existing real world examples of historical information published on the Web.

The Problem

How should we mark up content that has specific historical contexts, meanings, and/or values?

Participants

Jeremy Boggs

Real-World Examples

Historical Timelines

Tools for Timelines

Historical Event and Markup Linking (HEML) Project includes an "XML schema for historical events which describes the events' participants, dates, location and keywords; the schema associates these with source materials in print or on the web" and "XSLT stylesheets that combine conforming documents and generate lists, maps and graphical timelines out of them."

SIMILE Timeline Builder from MIT. The SIMILE timeline uses JavaScript and XML to create a timeline. The XML markup :

Timelines by XYLOGUE.

EasyTimeline (also at Infodisiac) "is a Mediawiki graphical plugin for visual timelines."

Timeline WordPress Plugin

HTML-based Timelines

Most HTML-based timelines use (very unsemantic) tables for markup.

List of Timelines from Wikipedia. Lists timelines available on Wikipedia.

The History Place presents Abraham Lincoln

That Wacky Century!

Harriet Tubman Timeline

OurTimeLines

Decades.com

EVOLUTIONARY/GEOLOGICAL TIMELINE v1.0 from Talk.Origins

Image-based Timelines

I include image-based timelines to get a sense of what content might be included, even though the content isn't marked up in these examples.

Timeline of Art History, Metropolitan Museum of Art

General History Sites

History Wikibooks. Examples include World History, U.S. History, and Modern History

BBC - History

Eyewitness to History

The History Channel