• A webservice for taking RDF and turning it into a very pretty timeline. Dipity

• Famento's Social Timeline Site

• A very smooth OSX Timeline Tool: BeeDocs

• A Text Aggregation tool such as TAPoR Googlizer
• A Find Dates tool such as the TAPoR Date Finder Tool

1. Augment the biographical information using an aggregation tool such as TAPoR Googlizer ;
2. Generate a rough chronology using the TAPoR Date Finder Tool;

• Still Another Good Timeline Tutorial Using Excel

• Another useful Timeline Animated Map Tool at The Historical Event Markup and Linking project

• The SIMILE Group at MIT have some excellent Timeline Tools

• A Text Aggregation tool such as TAPoR Googlizer

1. Take an existing biographical text of interest or get one from a source such as Project Gutenberg ;
2. Augment the biographical information using an aggregation tool such as TAPoR Googlizer ;

1. Sort the results returned by date;
2. Examine the results for duplicate information;

Create a Chronological
Timeline from a Biographical Text

• Exercise to Create a Chronological Timeline from a Biographical Text

• Information about the TAPoR Googlizer Tool
• Information about the TAPoR Find Dates Tool

• An aggregation tool such as TAPoR Googlizer
• A Find Dates tool such as the TAPoR Date Finder Tool

1. Augment available biographical information using an aggregation tool such as TAPoR Googlizer ;
2. Generate a rough chronology using the TAPoR Date Finder Tool;

• A biographical text to explore
• An aggregation tool such as TAPoR Googlizer
• A Find Dates tool such as the TAPoR Date Finder Tool

This recipe is applied to a sample text in Exercise 17 Create a Chronological
Timeline from a Biographical Text

1. Get an electronic text from a source such as Project Gutenberg ;
2. Augment available biographical information using an aggregation tool such as TAPoR Googlizer ;

1. Clean-up text in a text editor .

• List of All Recipes
• Exercise 17 Create a Chronological Timeline from a Biographical Text
• Help with Particular Tools
• Here's a Cool Tool for constructing graphical chronologies
• Here are some great examples of chronological timelines
• Background on Text Analysis

1. An aggregation tool such as TAPoR Googlizer
2. A Find Dates tool such as the TAPoR Date Finder Tool

1. Augment available biographical information using an aggregation tool such as TAPoR Googlizer >>discussion;
2. Generate a rough chronology using the TAPoR Date Finder Tool;

Stop List

A Stop list is a series of words that you may choose to exclude from a particular operation because you deem them to be irrelevant or obstructive to your analysis task. If you are searching for descriptive terms for example, you may choose to exclude function words normally occuring as part of everyday speech. Your interest may lie only in extraordinary words.

A Complete Glossary

1. Here's a Cool Tool for constructing graphical chronologies
2. Here are some great examples of chronological timelines

Recipe 17 : Create a Chronological
Timeline from a Biographical Text

This recipe is applied to a real text in Exercise 17 Create a Chronological Timeline from a Biographical Text.

1. A biographical text to explore
2. An aggregation tool such as TAPoR Googlizer

1. Augment available biographical information using an aggregation tool such as TAPoR Googlizer >>discussion;
2. Generate a rough chronology using the TAPoR Date Finder Tool;

1. Here's a Cool Tool for constructing graphical chronologies

Glossary

Collocation

Collocation

Collocation refers to the occurrence of words adjacently more often than would be expected by chance.
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Concordance

Concordance

A Concordance is a gathering of passages that "concord" or agree. Usually it is a gathering of passages with a sought for word.
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Databench

Databench

The Databench is a temporary workspace where you can store your text analysis results in the TAPoR for further use.
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Googlizer

Googlizer

The Googlizer queries the Google search engine using a word or phrase you provide and returns the results of the Google search.
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KWIC (Key Word in Context)

KWIC

A Key Word In Context (or KWIC) is a display of results in which the word searched for, the keyword, is in the centre surrounded by one line of context. This is how concordances are usually displayed. Here is an example that shows the occurrences of the word "dream" in A Midsummer Night's Dream in TACTweb:

I.1/577.1        | Four nights will quickly dream away the time; | And
I.1/578.2   Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; | Brief as the
II.2/585.1        | Ay me, for pity! what a dream was here! | Lysander,
III.2/591.1    this derision | Shall seem a dream and fruitless vision, |
IV.1/593.1      as the fierce vexation of a dream. | But first I will
IV.1/594.2    to me | That yet we sleep, we dream. Do not you think | The
IV.1/594.2      rare | vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to
IV.1/594.2     the wit of man to | say what dream it was: man is but an
IV.1/594.2    he go | about to expound this dream. Methought I was--there
IV.1/594.2     his heart to report, what my dream | was. I will get Peter
IV.1/594.2      to write a ballad of | this dream: it shall be called
IV.1/594.2      it shall be called Bottom's dream, | because it hath no
V.1/599.1       | Following darkness like a dream, | Now are frolic: not a
V.1/599.2   theme, | No more yielding but a dream, | Gentles, do not

MyTexts

MyTexts

This is an area of the TAPoR in which you collect your private texts for analysis. It is also a portal to access publicly available texts which have been added by other users. In this area you can view the catalogue of texts available to you or add, edit, tag, and view the contents of specific texts.
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MyTools

MyTools

This is an area within the TAPoR in which you can collect and experimwnt with text analalysis tools for your use.
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Workbench

Workbench

This is the analysis area of the TAPoR in which you apply text analysis tools to texts.
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Panels

Panel

The TAPoR Portal organizes information in panels (sometimes called portlets or coplets.) These can me minimized, maximized and closed using the three buttons in the upper left-hand corner of the panel.
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StopList

Stop List

A Stop list is a series of words that you may choose to exclude from a particular operation because you deem them to be irrelevant or obstructive to your analysis task. If you are searching for descriptive terms for example, you may choose to exclude function words normally occuring as part of everyday speech. Your interest may lie only in extraordinary words.
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TAPoRize

TAPoRize

One of the features of the TAPoR portal is that it gives you a bookmark with which to acquire texts into your myTexts Library quickly. You will find the TAPoRize bookmark on the myTexts page of your account under the Help link. Just drag it to your Bookmarks Bar or Favorities Bar. From then on you can acquire a text (add it to your myTexts) by clicking on the Bookmark when you are looking at the text.
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Text Encoding

Text Encoding

One of the most important aspects of the text input process is the encoding of the text which you are working with. It must be encoded as either UTF8 or Latin-1, which provides proper mapping of accented and other extended characters. See the links below for more background information on encoding processes. For example, when propoerly encoded the charcter 'e' is differentiated from the character 'é' and 'é' is not seen as the character 'e' + some symbol.
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UTF8

UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Character Encoding)

Unicode character encoding is an evolution of the ASCII set to permit support of a greater number of alphanumeric characters including those with diacritical marks such as accents. More information on UTF-8 is available at:Wikipedia

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WordCloud

Word Cloud

A visual presentation of keywords drawn from a text, visually differentiated based on their position and frequency of use in that text.
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1. An aggregation tool such as TAPoR Googilizer
2. A Find Dates tool such as the TAPoR Date Finder Tool

1. Get an electronic text from a source such as Project Gutenberg >>discussion;
2. Augment available biographical information using an aggregation tool such as TAPoR Googilizer >>discussion;
3. Generate rough chronology using the TAPoR Date Finder Tool;
4. Sort by date;
5. Examine list for duplicate information;
6. Clean-up text in a text editor >>discussion.

Augmenting Text

Building a Chronology

This recipe is applied to a real text in ExerciseSeventeen.

1. Exercise 17 Create a Chronological Timeline from a Biographical Text

1. Here's a Cool Tool for construting grapgical chronologies

Recipe 17 : Create a Chronological Timeline from a Biographical Text

This recipe takes a biographical text and uses tools such as the Googlizer and Find Dates to provide a framework for a chronological timeline.

Ingredients

1. An biographical text to explore
2. A Find Dates tool such as the TAPoR Date Finder Tool

Steps

1. Get electronic text from a source such as Project Gutenberg >>discussion;
2. Generate rough chronology using the TAPoR Date Finder Tool;
3. Examine list to see if anything unusual stands out;

Discussion

Finding a Text

Glossary

Next Steps/Further Information

1. List of All Recipes
2. Exercise 1 Identifying Themes within a Text
3. Recipe 2 Exploring Themes within a Text
4. Help with Particular Tools
5. Background on Text Analysis

-- ShawnDay - 12 Feb 2006