Presentation at ISWC 2014 - Slides and links
By Sean McBirnie
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Below are the slides from our presentation at ISWC 2014, including slides representing the live portions of the presentation. With the slides you'll find any related knowledge base articles and links to the timelines used during the presentation. If you have any comments regarding the presentation please leave them in the comments.SLIDE 1 - Adding events and basic controls
Knowledge base articles: Basic Controls
SLIDE 2 - Editing events, links to data sources
Knowledge base articles: Editing
SLIDE 3 - Wikidata: a hub for linked data source
Learn More about Wikidata on their home page
Read more about why Wikidata is important on a guest post by us on the Wikimedia Germany blog
SLIDE 4 - Creating timelines from Wikipedia categories
Example timelines created from Wikipedia categories.
French female artists:
Timeline unavailable: http://histropedia.com/timeline?c=French_women_artists
Ford motor vehicles
Timeline unavailable: http://histropedia.com/timeline?c=Ford_vehicles
Knowledge base article: Automatic timelines from Wikipedia categories
SLIDE 5 - Creating timelines from Qikidata queries
Example timelines created using Wikidata queries
Descendants of Queen Victoria:
Timeline unavailable: http://histropedia.com/timeline?q=tree[9439][40]
3km radius of the London Eye:
Timeline unavailable: http://histropedia.com/timeline?q=around[625,51.50,%20-0.12,3]%20AND%20CLAIM[31:(tree[811430][][279])]#
Knowledge base article:
Automatic timelines from Wikidata queries
Tutorial: How to make a “descendants of” timeline using Wikidata.
SLIDE 6 - Data Map
A simple map showing the data sources currently used by Histroepdia
SLIDE 7 - Timeline Directory / Merging Timelines
Example timelines from presentation:
Timeline unavailable: Apollo missions
Timeline unavailable: Private space flight
Timeline unavailable: Mission to Mars
Timeline unavailable: Missions to Jupiter
Timeline unavailable: Missions to Venus
Timeline unavailable: Space exploration timeline (combined timeline)
Knowledge base article: Merging timelines
SLIDE 8 - Coming Soon
