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Timeline Exercise
This exercise will take us into the Knightlab’s Timeline tool. Working in small groups, you’ll pull from the resources that we’ve used this week – the readings, the lectures, the internets – to identify 3-4 objects, humans, quotes, etc that can be entered on the timeline and that can have some sort of media attached to them (images, EDM clips, YouTube vids, etc). Working in the spreadsheet that I’ve emailed to you, you will add the information and media and, in the process, edit our dynamic timeline.
Objective
We shouldn’t lose sight of the goal: we want to tell a coherent story about histories of technology vis-a-vis DH. Make sure that the objects that you include are relevant. And it’s worth noting that Timeline.js is robust enough to allow you contextualize that relevance: use a combination of media, title, and text to frame your additions to the timeline.
Data Sources
- Scan the readings for today and Tuesday for candidate information: think of machines that are mentioned, people that are players in our stories, and events. All of these should be connected to a time (at least a year).
- Surf to the Wikipedia and Wikimedia resources that are available.
- Can you create a map that’s interesting and useful to the story we’re trying to tell?
- What am I forgetting??
Helpful links
Using the Timeline Spreadsheet Template
Compatible Media Types
Our Timeline
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