1. timeliner
early ideas
Vladimir Tomberg
David Lamas
November 2010

2. What is this about?
• I guess it is about facilitating collaborative
research paper writing…
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3. Inspiring ideas
• Like this paper prototype
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4. Inspiring ideas
• …and actual implementation
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5. Inspiring ideas
• Unwrapping the clock ring…
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6. Inspiring ideas
• Adding community and data layers…
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7. Inspiring ideas
• WikiCFP’s timeline…
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8. Inspiring ideas
• …generated from a list of chosen CFPs
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9. Again, what is this about?
• So, it is about…
– Collaboratively managing writing tasks
• With a decentralized and light project management
approach
• But it is also about…
– Cooperatively identifying and tracking scientific
publication opportunities
– Contributing to an open research environment
• Promoting awareness of shared goals
• Supporting team work
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10. Again, what is this about?
• In a diagram…
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11. Again, what is this about?
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12. Again, what is this about?
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13. Again, what is this about?
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14. Again, what is this about?
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15. Again, what is this about?
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16. Again, what is this about?
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17. Again, what is this about?
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18. Again, what is this about?
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19. Open questions…
• What functionalities do we need?
– Possibility to exchange with task, related to
specific project
• E.g. to assign a task for examining of some articles
to co-author
– Technically
• Send iCal from one timeliner to another.
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20. Open questions…
• What external data we need?
– CfP data. Should be gathered from very
different sources (CfP wiki, RSS, other sources).
– Any CfP specification necessary? XML-CfP?
– Key dates of each project (deadlines,
milestones)
– Different types of Milestones (for Survey, for
Writing phase, for Deadline, for Camera-Ready
deadline, etc.) can be defined in ontology
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21. Open questions…
• What external data we need?
– Data we work in each project
• Articles, links
– External context related to each project
• Notes, goals, current state etc.)
– Users we work with in relation to each project
– To be modified and continued…
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22. Research challenges
• Information visualization
• Interface and interaction design
• Information gathering
• Information sharing
• Integration and interoperability
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23. So far…
• We have looked into a number of timeline
toolkits such as…
– http://www.heml.org/
– http://www.preceden.com/
– http://timeglider.com/
– http://www.mytimelines.net/
– http://veerasundar.com/timelinr/
– And the most promising, so far,
http://code.google.com/p/simile-
widgets/wiki/Timeline
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24. Please participate
• We think that here is a big challenge and big
volume for future works in different fields
• Many studies and design researches can be
implemented around this project
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