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[http://www.froginawell.net/ Frog in a Well] (east Asian history and culture)
[http://www.froginawell.net/ Frog in a Well] (east Asian history and culture)


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[http://www.si.edu Smithsonian Institution]
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[http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/ The British Museum]. Their [http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/worldofmoney/index.html World of Money] is a historical exhibit on the history of money around the globe.
[http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/ The British Museum]. Their [http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/worldofmoney/index.html World of Money] is a historical exhibit on the history of money around the globe.
[http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/non-flash/overview.html A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the Constitution] (non-flash version)
[http://www.designmuseum.org/digital/a-century-of-chairs A Century of Chairs] From the Design Museum.
[http://www.mcny.org/ Museum of the City of New York]


=== Types of Historical Information ===
=== Types of Historical Information ===

Revision as of 16:37, 22 December 2006

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

History seeks to show and explain change over time. With that in mind, 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.

Historic American Sheet Music - Timeline: 1860-1869

The Food Timeline: Food history reference and research service.

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

Type Timeline (in Russian)

West Midland Bird Club history

History of the Baseball Uniform Timeline from the National Baseball Hall of Fame

The History section of the History-Examples wiki page Seems that the history sections of this wiki are essentially timelines, with historical information, showing change over time.

Image and Flash-based Timelines

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

Women's History Timeline, 1940-1949

When Ice Ages Occur

Timeline of Art History, Metropolitan Museum of Art

General History Sites

Reference

History Wikibooks. Examples include World History,

U.S. History, and Modern History

BBC - History

Eyewitness to History

The History Channel

World History Matters

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution

DoHistory

American Memory

Making of America

Bloggers and Weblogs

Early Modern Notes

The Little Professor

Airminded: Airpower and British society, 1908-1941

Archaeoastronomy

Civil War Memory

Abraham Lincoln Blog

Frog in a Well (east Asian history and culture)

Museums and Exhibits

Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History

National Museum of Natural History

The British Museum. Their World of Money is a historical exhibit on the history of money around the globe.

A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the Constitution (non-flash version)

A Century of Chairs From the Design Museum.

Museum of the City of New York

Types of Historical Information

Dates and Time Periods

Centuries

8th Century

15th Century

19th Century

Decades

1930s

1980s

Days

June 6, 1944 "D-Day"

Events

The Battle of Antietam on the Web

People, Biographies, and Profiles

Most biographical profiles provide dates of birth and death, detail important events with which the person was involved, and outline general historical contexts in which the person lived and participated.

St. Joan of Arc

Frederick Douglass

Queen Elizabeth I

Mahatma Ghandi

Genghis Khan - Wikipedia

Sir Isaac Newton

Time 100: Margaret Thatcher

Biography of George Washington

The following timelines provide a comparative list of the timeframes in which select political leaders around the world were in power:

20th Century - First Quarter

20th Century - Second Quarter

20th Century - Third Quarter

20th Century - Fourth Quarter

Places

Existing Practices

See Also