Chronos Timeline

HyperStudio’s Chronos Timeline is designed specifically for needs in the humanities and social sciences to represent time-based data. Chronos allows scholars and students to dynamically present historical data in a flexible online environment. Switching easily between vertical and horizontal orientations, researchers can quickly scan large number of events, highlight and filter events based on subject matter or tags, and recontextualize historical data. The Chronos Timeline is one component in HyperStudio’s emerging Repertoire platform and can easily be integrated with other tools such as faceted browsers, maps, and visualization modules.

Built in JavaScript on top of an extendable object-oriented architecture, Chronos is a flexible jQuery plug-in using the powerful jQuery library. Chronos is notable for its dynamic scaling, which allows the user to drill down into time periods to explore and compare events. Chronos connects flexibly to data sources via the JSON open standard, and will support XML data structures in a future version. Repertoire Chronos Timeline is currently in beta stage and will be released as free software under the GNU General Public License. Please feel free to try out the Chronos prototypes below. Feedback is highly welcome.

http://hs-dev.mit.edu/repertoire/chronos/
http://hs-dev.mit.edu/repertoire/chronos/vertical/
http://hs-dev.mit.edu/repertoire/chronos/horizontal/