Graphical or textual representations of events with respect to time are useful tools not only for analyzing, exploring, and understanding the context of events and the relationships among them, but also for using the space in an efficient way, thus making this cognitive process much easier and efficient. However, the structure of the information changes among different domains, therefore creating a general-purpose timeline viewer is a challenging task.
- ItLv (Interactive Timeline Viewer) is a Java-based visualization tool that can be used to depict time-based events in a Starfield display.
- It is based on the initial work by Kumar, Furuta, and Allen at the Center for the Study of Digital Libraries.
- It can display multiple and interlinked presentations of a data collection and its metadata simultaneously.
- ItLv's interacitve features enable users to discover facts, patterns, and relationships among entities in a repository of data.
The main goal of ItLv is to serve as a tool to augment cognition for exploring a repository of information using a 2D display.
Below there are some examples that give a first look at ItLv, click here to see more of ItLv's functionality.
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ItLv depicting events in Miguel de Cervantes' life. A personalized pop up window (the one in yellow background) shows more information about any given event. |
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Using Itlv to discover patterns in texts. In this case a comparison of chapter one in six editions of Don Quixote (from 1605 to 1637) is shown. |