{"id":19179,"date":"2017-04-27T06:01:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T05:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=19179"},"modified":"2017-04-27T06:01:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T05:01:42","slug":"19179","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2017\/04\/27\/19179\/","title":{"rendered":"The scanners run hot, in Iceland…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iceland has digitised the historical collections for all of the nation’s newspapers, newsletters and small magazines<\/a> and popped a unified search box on them. My search for a random set of likely keywords suggests they’re all in the local language. <\/p>\n

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Iceland’s historical digitised books collection<\/a> is similarly comprehensive, and also contains a small number of English-language books<\/a> recounting visits and stays on the Iceland.<\/p>\n

There’s also a similar historic manuscripts<\/a> online library, and a historical maps collection<\/a> with an embedded timeline of click-able thumbnails. <\/p>\n

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The timeline is built on the open source Web-widget SIMILE Timeline<\/a> from MIT. I note that there’s now a 2015 WordPress Plugin<\/a> which integrates the SIMILE Timeline into a self-hosted WordPress installation, and this rather usefully appears to allow the user to avoid a lot of hacking-and-slashing through the javascript and HTML. SIMILE can use multiple side-scrolling bands, allowing you to display and navigate long or highly detailed timelines.<\/p>\n

A simpler slideshow-like alternative would be TimelineJS<\/a>, fairly easily workable via a Google Spreadsheet template rather than WordPress. The free service imports the completed Google Spreadsheet and automatically outputs an elegant simple side-scrolling timeline. Note however that the developers say that… “We recommend not having more than 20 slides [timeline points] for a reader to click through”, and that the Web page embedding code for “TimelineJS does not work with WordPress.com sites”.<\/p>\n

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For small tablet-tastical timelines + templates, see the $12 Responsive Timeline<\/a> by Toghrool on CodeCanyon, and his Responsive Timeline WordPress version<\/a>. Made in 2017, and it looks good for making a short timeline which will have to be seen by tablet-centric clients from beyond the world of education.<\/p>\n

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Omeka also has the Neatline<\/a> plugin, which might be worth a look if you’re working with maps and<\/em> images and<\/em> time.<\/p>\n

If you can pay a monthly fee, I see there’s also now a nice-looking commercial timeline service called Tiki Toki<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iceland has digitised the historical collections for all of the nation’s newspapers, newsletters and small magazines and popped a unified …<\/p>\n

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