Why What When is an exploration, created in 36 hours. The challenge at the Mediahackday was to make better use of archived content. See for yourself what we came up with… (IHINT: Links in PDF will work)

2. WHY WHAT WHEN
Super-simple timelines

3. WHY WHAT WHEN
Super-simple timelines
Media HACKDAY (Berlin, October 2013)
A Journalism++ exploration
for better use of archived content from newspapers.
Journalism++ team:
Pierre Bellon, Paul Joannon, Peter Grensund,
Jelle Kamsma, Cosmin Cabulea, Mirko Lorenz.

4. CHALLENGE:
MAKE BETTER USE OF ARCHIVES

5. WHY?
WHAT? WHEN?
THIS IS HOW WE WORKED ON THIS...
DEEP-LEVEL VIEW
APP-VIEW
TIME-VIEW

6. THE WHY
WHEN WAS THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS?
CAN NOT REMEMBER?
OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND
YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
IT‘S HARD TO REMEMBER EXACT DATES.

7. HOW?

8. SUPER-SIMPLE TIMELINES
HOW?

9. SUPER-SIMPLE TIMELINES
USER EXPLORES STEP-BY-STEP
HOW?

10. SUPER-SIMPLE TIMELINES
USER EXPLORES STEP-BY-STEP
FACT AFTER FACT...
HOW?

11. SUPER-SIMPLE TIMELINES
USER EXPLORES STEP-BY-STEP
FACT AFTER FACT...
AVOID TL,DR
HOW?

12. SUPER-SIMPLE TIMELINES
USER EXPLORES STEP-BY-STEP
FACT AFTER FACT...
AVOID TL,DR
MOBILE/TABLET FRIENDLY
HOW?

13. IS THERE A GOOD/BETTER
VISUALIZATION?

14. HTTP://WWW.ECONOMIST.COM/BLOGS/GRAPHICDETAIL/2012/09/DAILY-CHART-13
Found via Flowing Data -
„Here is today“ is a concept/idea by Luke Twyman -.Vinyl Design

15. HTTP://WWW.ECONOMIST.COM/BLOGS/GRAPHICDETAIL/2012/09/DAILY-CHART-13
Found via Flowing Data -
„Here is today“ is a concept/idea by Luke Twyman -.Vinyl Design
YES!

16. HTTP://WWW.ECONOMIST.COM/BLOGS/GRAPHICDETAIL/2012/09/DAILY-CHART-13
Found via Flowing Data -
„Here is today“ is a concept/idea by Luke Twyman -.Vinyl Design
YES!

17. CAN WE ADAPT THIS CONCEPT
TO LET USERS EXPLORE PAST
EVENTS?

18. PROTOTYPE

19. whywhatwhen.jplusplus.org

20. WRAP-UP
TELL STORIES FROM ARCHIVE IN STEPS
RADICALLY REDUCED INTERFACE
VISUALIZE „WHEN“ CLEARLY
POTENTIAL USES
USE TEMPLATE FOR AUTOMATIC TIMELINES
USE TEMPLATE FOR EDITED TIMELINES
(E.G. ONLY CONTENT THAT IS VERIFIED)

21. CHALLENGE FOR MEDIA ARCHIVES:
IS THE ARCHIVE META DATA
SUPPORTING EXTRACTION OF
„NUGGETS“ OF INFORMATION?
REMEMBER THIS?

22. THANK YOU!