Presentation at ISWC 2014 – Slides and links

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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

 

Slide 2c - Add roman empire

 

Knowledge base articles: Basic Controls

 SLIDE 2 – Editing events, links to data sources

 

Slide 3b - Wikis

 

Knowledge base articles: Editing

 


 SLIDE 3 – Wikidata: a hub for linked data source

 

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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

 

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Example timelines created from Wikipedia categories.

 

French female artists:

http://histropedia.com/timeline?c=French_women_artists

Category in Wikipedia

 

Ford motor vehicles

http://histropedia.com/timeline?c=Ford_vehicles

Category on Wikipedia

 

Knowledge base article: Automatic timelines from Wikipedia categories

SLIDE 5 – Creating timelines from Qikidata queries

 

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Example timelines created using Wikidata queries

 

Descendants of Queen Victoria:

http://histropedia.com/timeline?q=tree[9439][40]

 

3km radius of the London Eye:

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

 

Slide 1b

 

A simple map showing the data sources currently used by Histroepdia

 


 SLIDE 7 – Timeline Directory / Merging Timelines

 

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Example timelines from presentation:

 

Apollo missions

Private space flight

Mission to Mars

Missions to Jupiter

Missions to Venus

Space exploration timeline (combined timeline)

Knowledge base article: Merging timelines

 


SLIDE 8 – Coming Soon

 

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More upcoming and suggested features can be found in our ideas and feedback forum.Vote for features or add your own ideas!

Sean McBirnie

Co-Founder at Histropedia

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