Why What WHEN - Demonstrator/prototype from Media Hack Day Berlin (October 2013)

WHY WHAT WHENSuper-simple timelines

WHY WHAT WHENSuper-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.

CHALLENGE:MAKE BETTER USE OF ARCHIVES

WHY?WHAT? WHEN?

THIS IS HOW WE WORKED ON THIS...

DEEP-LEVEL VIEW

APP-VIEW TIME-VIEW

THE WHYWHEN 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.

HOW?

SUPER-SIMPLE TIMELINESHOW?

SUPER-SIMPLE TIMELINESUSER EXPLORES STEP-BY-STEP

HOW?

SUPER-SIMPLE TIMELINESUSER EXPLORES STEP-BY-STEPFACT AFTER FACT...

HOW?

SUPER-SIMPLE TIMELINESUSER EXPLORES STEP-BY-STEPFACT AFTER FACT...AVOID TL,DR

HOW?

SUPER-SIMPLE TIMELINESUSER EXPLORES STEP-BY-STEPFACT AFTER FACT...AVOID TL,DRMOBILE/TABLET FRIENDLY

HOW?

IS THERE A GOOD/BETTER VISUALIZATION?

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

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!

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!

CAN WE ADAPT THIS CONCEPT TO LET USERS EXPLORE PAST

EVENTS?

PROTOTYPE

whywhatwhen.jplusplus.org

WRAP-UPTELL STORIES FROM ARCHIVE IN STEPSRADICALLY REDUCED INTERFACEVISUALIZE „WHEN“ CLEARLY

POTENTIAL USESUSE TEMPLATE FOR AUTOMATIC TIMELINESUSE TEMPLATE FOR EDITED TIMELINES (E.G. ONLY CONTENT THAT IS VERIFIED)

CHALLENGE FOR MEDIA ARCHIVES: IS THE ARCHIVE META DATA

SUPPORTING EXTRACTION OF „NUGGETS“ OF INFORMATION?

REMEMBER THIS?

THANK YOU!