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This blog post has the slides and resources used during our recent presentation at the ALB open data forum at the Natural History Museum.
Histropedia Directory Timelines:
We started by loading the Timeline of Empires, we then added the event, Oxford University and finished by merging in a timeline of 1090s conflicts. The final timeline we created can be viewed here. Timeline unavailable: Timeline of Empires, 1090s conflicts + Oxford universityWIKIDATA
Useful Links
QUERY GENERATORS
We used 2 different query generators during the presentationAbout these query generators:
These are very simple tools we use internally designed to make it easier and quicker to create certain types of queries. On the spreadsheets many of the statements and items have been added, allowing you to choose the item you want to filter by, if the item you want to filter by isn't in the list you can simply add the Wikidata item number instead of choosing from the list. These are open source documents, so please feel free to use and modify, if you do make improvements you can send us updated versions of the generators and we will update the master copy so more people can benefit. The timelines we created (and the query that was used to generate them are listed below.TIMELINE: Timeline unavailable: Descendants of Alfred the Great
QUERY: Timeline unavailable: Histropedia timeline )]TIMELINE: Timeline unavailable: Descendants of Alfred the Great born in Denmark
QUERY: Timeline unavailable: Histropedia timeline )]TIMELINE: Timeline unavailable: Academy Award for best picture with a subject of War
QUERY: Timeline unavailable: Histropedia timeline )]%20AND%20noclaim[31:(tree[15416][][279])]%20AND%20claim[921:(tree[198][][279,31])]%20AND%20claim[166:(tree[102427][][31,279])]TIMELINE: Timeline unavailable: Biographical films set in London
QUERY: Timeline unavailable: Histropedia timeline )]%20AND%20noclaim[31:(tree[15416][][279])]%20AND%20claim[136:(tree[645928][][279])]%20AND%20claim[840:(tree[84][150][131,17])]We also show a timeline of events within 5km of the NHM
Timeline unavailable: TimelineQUERY: Timeline unavailable: http://histropedia.com/timeline?q=around[625,%2051.496725,%20-0.176410,5]#
Although we don’t have generator for that type of query we do have a tutorial which shows how you can manually make the queries
Tutorial: Create instant location based timelines using Wikidata queriesTo keep up with the latest news for Histropedia you can follow us on twitter: @histropedia
We also have an account dedicated to posting interesting timelines from our directory @histrobot