[okfn-labs] Timeliner: http://timeliner.reclinejs.com/ - makes nice timelines fast

Wed Aug 8 10:58:36 UTC 2012

Hi All,

As part of the Recline launch I put together some demo apps one of
which was Timeliner:

<http://timeliner.reclinejs.com/>

This uses the Recline timeline component (which itself is a relatively
thin wrapper around the *excellent* Verite timeline [1]) plus the
Google docs backend to provide an easy way for people to make
timelines backed by a Google Docs spreadsheet.

As an example of use, I started work on a "spending stories" timeline
about the bankruptcy of US cities (esp in California) as a result of
the "Great Recession" (source spreadsheet [2]):

<http://timeliner.reclinejs.com/?backend=gdocs&url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aon3JiuouxLUdDQ3QlJhOHJnS2x0NkxibUp1YnYwR1E%23gid=0#explorer>

Regards,

Rufus

[1]: http://timeline.verite.co/
[2]: <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aon3JiuouxLUdDQ3QlJhOHJnS2x0NkxibUp1YnYwR1E#gid=0>

### Code

Source code for the Timeliner is here:

https://github.com/okfn/timeliner

And there are bunch of improvements I'd like to make:

https://github.com/okfn/timeliner/issues