Histropedia Sheets is a new free tool for creating interactive timelines from spreadsheets published online with Google Sheets. It allows you to create custom timelines for any purpose using simple spreadsheet knowledge only. The columns in your spreadsheet are used to add colour codes, filters and related content for each Event. The resulting timeline can be viewed full screen or embedded on a web page. Because the timeline data comes from Google Sheets, it’s easy to collaborate with others by managing the access rights to your spreadsheet.

HistropediaJS v1.2.0 is now available 😊 The latest instalment is ready for lift off, with some really cool new features and an equally exciting huge boost in performance! Read on for a walk through some of the Histropedia v1.2.0 highlights, or see the download page for full release notes. New features in HistropediaJS v1.2.0 New Timeline Redraw system The new restructured redraw system has given HistropediaJS v1.2.0 a major boost in performance.

HistropediaJS v1.1.0 is now available! This is a major new release with significant improvements to the core library, including a massive boost to the available zoom levels, upgraded zoom logic, built in pinch to zoom and many more powerful new features and options! New features in HistropediaJS v1.1.0 Cosmic timescales You can now fit around 15 billion years across the screen when fully zoomed out! This means we can finally visualise topics with cosmic or geological timescales, like the formation of the solar system and evolution of life on Earth.

This post is a follow up to the session I hosted at WikidataCon 2017 along with Stuart Prior from WikimediaUK (standing in for John Cummings, Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO) Data partnerships with reputable third parties are really important for the future of Wikidata. If we get this right it will alleviate a lot of the manual work needed keeping general facts about the world up to date, whilst simultaneously giving greater authority to Wikidata in terms of completeness and accuracy (not to mention consistency!

Screenshot from the tool showing paintings by Vincent Van Gogh Two years ago, I attended Wikidata's 3rd birthday celebrations in the Wikimedia Deutschland offices in Berlin. One thing that stuck out to me was the amazing tools and work people were presenting as birthday presents to Wikidata. So, this year at WikidataCon, where we celebrated Wikidata's 5th birthday, it was a real pleasure to be able to present a new version of our tool for visualising Wikidata on interactive timelines.

In our opinion WikidataCon 2017 was a resounding success. We re-connected with many fellow Wikimedians and met new connections both inside and outside of the Wikimedia Community. The mood of the conference was one of improvement, collaboration and discussion, personally it felt like the unofficial theme of the conference was: "The potential impact of Wikidata on our world is immense, let's make sure we realise that potential" Few things worth doing are easy, and the Wikidata project is certainly not exempt from this rule, few projects outside of Wikipedia itself come close to the scope of what is trying to be achieved with Wikidata.

During the next few months we're rolling out some very cool new features and options and for HistropediaJS, our JavaScript library for creating interactive timelines. This includes some impressive looking animations and several key improvements related to timeline scrolling. Here’s an overview of what’s coming: Smoother and easier timeline scrolling If we have done our job right you may not even notice these changes. The aim of the new features is to improve the way in which you interact with the timeline, and to prevent annoying movement of events as you scroll through time.

Making use once of Wikidata, and our new tool for creating live timelines from their ever expanding database, we have put together a few timelines of previous Academy Award Oscar winners. The timelines are created live from Wikidata and show the previous winners of the 4 acting awards and the award for best director. All the timelines are colour coded by the nationality of the recipient of the award. You can view the colour code, and use it as a quick filtering system, by clicking on the ink drop icon on the timeline.

Have you seen our new Wikidata timeline creator? It lets us make filterable timelines live from Wikidata (Wikipedia data) and the results are very impressive!! Below are some of the latest timelines created by us and other users who are already taking advantage of this new tool. The timelines generally have both a colour code and one or more filters you can use to refine the events visible on the timeline.

This special Showcase timeline shows the presidencies of all 44 Presidents of the United States, and has colour coded filters showing the political party of the president while in office. OPEN TIMELINE IN A NEW WINDOW TO EXPLORE IN FULL SCREEN About this timeline Time in office The events on the timeline show the time each president was in office, the majority show the standard 4 and 8 year terms of american politics.

When we are busy creating new things, we sometimes forget to tell the world what we are doing. So here is a long overdue and hopefully very exciting update on what's being going on at Histropedia recently. HistropediaJS - Timeline Renderer The Biggest news is the launch of HistropediaJS, a JavaScript library that renders timelines using the same core engine as the main Histropedia site. The Library allows any data source to be visualised as an interactive timeline, with options for custom styling and features to be rendered with the timeline.

Explore an interactive timeline of albums by American singer-song writer Bob Dylan, colour coded by Live, compilation and studio albums. CLICK HERE TO OPEN THE TIMELINE IN A NEW WINDOW BLUE Studio Alums 37 Albums RED Compilation Albums 17 Albums GREEN Live Albums 16 albums HISTROPEDIA TIMELINES: Our timelines are created automatically (and improved manually) using Wikipedia and Wikidata. There are over 300,000 timelines and 1.5 million events available for free, and published under an open license.

Explore a slice of British film history with our timeline of James Bond films, colour coded by the actor who played the world's most famous spy in each film. CLICK HERE TO OPEN THE TIMELINE IN A NEW WINDOW RED Sean Connery (7 films) GREY George Lazenby (1 film) BLUE Roger Moore (7 films) GREEN Timothy Dalton (2 films) PURPLE Pierce Brosnan (4 films) YELLOW Daniel Craig (4 films)

By combining and colour coding existing timelines we created a film directors comparison timeline to compare four of the greatest directors in history. CLICK HERE TO OPEN THE TIMELINE IN A NEW WINDOW RED Francis Ford Coppola BLUE Martin Scorsese GREEN Steven Spielberg PURPLE James Cameron HISTROPEDIA TIMELINES: Our timelines are created automatically (and improved manually) using Wikipedia and Wikidata. There are over 300,000 timelines and 1.5 million events available for free, and published under an open license.

Our newly colour coded timeline of Isaac Asimov novels by series lets you easily follow the history of each series. CLICK HERE TO OPEN THE TIMELINE IN A NEW WINDOW GREEN Empire series RED Foundation series BLUE Robot series PURPLE Lucky Starr series GREY = One off novels HISTROPEDIA TIMELINES: Our timelines are created automatically (and improved manually) using Wikipedia and Wikidata. There are over 300,000 timelines and 1.5 million events available for free, and published under an open license.

Any regular readers out there may have noticed a drop recently in blog posts, don’t fear this was a temporary pause while we concentrated on a few other projects. One of these is a new portal site which should be coming soon, including a new custom film timelines generator. Another cool thing we have been doing is prototyping new potential features for Histropedia. One of these features is Colour Coded Timelines, and although we can’t yet offer you the ability to colour code timelines, we have started creating some colour coded timelines for you to enjoy.

The highly anticipated Batman v Superman film is almost here and we are about to see the world’s two most famous superheroes appear on the big screen at the same time. That’s not to say both characters don’t have a rich on screen history to explore! We’ve put together a colour coded timeline showing the different Batman films and Superman films through history. We haven’t included any documentaries, re-releases or non-theatrically released films.

This is a selection of interactive timelines relating to events that took place on this day in history. Histropedia is free to use, and that includes embedding timelines on your blog or site. You can find thousands of timelines by searching on histropedia.com/timeline or by browsing the rest of our blog. Click here to learn more about embedding timelines. If you have any questions or queries please get in touch or leave a comment below.

This is a selection of interactive timelines relating to events that took place on this day in history. Histropedia is free to use, and that includes embedding timelines on your blog or site. You can find thousands of timelines by searching on histropedia.com/timeline or by browsing the rest of our blog. Click here to learn more about embedding timelines. If you have any questions or queries please get in touch or leave a comment below.

This is a selection of interactive timelines relating to events that took place on this day in history. Histropedia is free to use, and that includes embedding timelines on your blog or site. You can find thousands of timelines by searching on histropedia.com/timeline or by browsing the rest of our blog. Click here to learn more about embedding timelines. If you have any questions or queries please get in touch or leave a comment below.