A new seeker after the Grail
13 October 2007
A digital history grail, anyway.
Yale Computer Science major Sam Strasser has started blogging about his Senior project at .
Visualize History will attack the general problem by presenting that multi-dimensional story in multiple dimensions. For example, many key events are directly linked to a specific geographic location and all are linked to a specific time or time period. The application will therefore provide a way to navigate through both time and space. However, the logical relationships are just as important as the temporal or spatial ones, and the application will also provide a way to navigate from an event to other related events.
I'll be very interested to see how this goes. I expect he'll find the deeper he goes, the bigger it gets!
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October 14th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Seems like using KML and google earth could achieve many of the goals.
October 14th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
thanks for the ideas Scott – you might comment along those lines over on Sam’s blog, too.