Don't worry about setting scales to passages quite yet. I've done a rough estimate which it should be fairly easy to check once I've got the change of scale working properly... I'd also rather attach it to the importance field or the timeline field as opposed to the reference itself, as it makes it easier to manage.
In that way, if we want to have a particular set of events magnified together, we just add them to the same importance with the correct scale. I'm still working on the database layer stuff which is almost complete and then tying in the remainder of the timeline stuff.
Chris
2010/1/18 Tyndale STEP Project <tyndalestep@googlemail.com>
Chris
Great idea about the different scales.
Your proposal is (as I understand it) to have a database of scales for each Scripture ref,
so, eg, anything in Gen 1-11 would be a millenia,
Gen 12-50 would be 100 years,
Ex 1-12 would be 1 year (with a few places where it is higher scale)
etc
Also, I like your idea of limiting the number of timelines visible.
The timelines visible for any particular Scripture ref could go in the same database.
Would you like me to have a go at something along these lines?
Feel free to copy the dictionary data into the subversion repository.
I'm hoping this week to merge the different dictionary data into files which Sarah, our Editor, can work on,
to produce one polished article for each headword. This will be a slow task, so you probably want to just
pick one dictionary to work with in the meantime.
David IB
At 12:25 17/01/2010, Tyndale STEP Project wrote:
Hi All
Just to say I have been a working on the timeline a bit more and thinking about the interlinear. I have a question about the timeline:
What's the best way of displaying things? It's difficult, because if you do a passage lookup, you might be interested in a view of decades, or days, depending on how many events happen to be on that period.
There is also the wider of issue of how many timelines/timebands to display. For eg. do we really need to show everything at a particular date. Is it something the user should choose completely, or would it be something that we'd try and guess and then give options for more or less detail... For eg., lookup Ex 2:1 on http://crosswire.org:8080/~chrisburrell/Step.html and you'll see we're showing a lots of things, which the user might not be interested in...
At the moment, my thoughts have been to associate a scale to each of the timeline/importance columns, and when looking up a passage, to take the event referring to the smallest portion of scripture, working out it's timeline/importance and looking up the suggested scale. Thne sending that to the client to ensure it is displayed at a good scale... So for eg. Ex 2:1 would be on a week/day scale, whereas the wilderness would possibly be on a year/decade scale. And then judges would be on decade, etc... This means we'll have to tweak things a bit as we realise that the scale i've chosen is perhaps not ideal.
Anyhow, I've been putting in place a database framework to ensure things can be done quicker in the future, as well as a config framework to ensure we can run on both single user and web/server environments.
As far as the wiki dictionary goes, could we put all your work in the subversion repository? under the step-dataloader/data project? I already have (an outdated version) of the timeline base data. What this project does is load up from files into the java db that we have.
Chris
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