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.

Historical Timelines

<a href="http://heml.org/heml-cocoon/">Historical Event and Markup Linking (HEML) Project</a> 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."

<a href="http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/">SIMILE Timeline Builder</a> from MIT. The SIMILE timeline uses JavaScript and XML to create a timeline. The <a href="http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/docs/example1.xml">XML markup</a>:

General History Sites

<a href="http://www.bbc.net.uk/history/">BBC - History</a>