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A collection of open source data visualization web widgets that grew out of semantic web research at MIT.

Use this tag for questions relating to any of the Simile widgets - Runway, Timeline or Exhibit.

The Simile widgets product incorporates three distinct open source projects originally developed at MIT and are now maintained by the open source community.

  • Simile TimeLine is a JavaScript web widget for displaying events organized on a timeline.
  • The Exhibit project, is described on its web page as a "Publishing Framework for Large-Scale Data-Rich Interactive Web Pages."
  • Runway is a Flash based tool allowing designers to "display images in a rich interactive visualization similar to that of Apple iTunes known as Cover Flow."

As of second quarter of 2012, Exhibit is the only Simile widget seeing active development. Demonstration projects are available for the widgets at the umbrella web site, http://www.simile-widgets.org/.

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Alternative to SIMILE Timeline for timeline visualization?

So I have been having lots of fun playing with SIMILE Timeline, but unfortunately, it appears to be all but abandoned (most recently closed ticket May 2009) and riddled with memory leaks, especially when you are dynamically loading and unloading…
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Is JavaScript single threaded? If not, how do I get synchronized access to shared data?

I have a web page with DIVs with a mouseover handler that is intended to show a pop-up information bubble. I don't want more than one info bubble to be visible at a time. But when the user moves the mouse rapidly over two items, I sometimes get two…
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Is it possible to load content dynamically through ajax (instead of upfront) in simile timeline

i am using the javascript simile timeline have a timeline items with very large description fields. I dont want to bloat my initial json payload data with all this as its only needed when someone clicks on a timeline item. So for example, on this…
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How to reload data in Simile Timeline

I created a SIMILE Timeline that uses an XML file as data source which is created by a method when an aspx command is invoked. The problem is that when the XML file is updated the Timeline isn't updated and shows the data of the first load. The data…
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is there a way to have quarter of a year intervals in the simile timeline javascript widget?

When using the javascript timeline widget simile, i see there is hour, day, week, month, year intervals. Is there anyway to have an interval be a quarter of a year? i am trying to group events into Quarter1, Q2, Q3, Q4 in 2010.
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How to manually add events to simile timeline widget

I am able to use simile timeline with json file using... tl.loadJSON("/files/trial.js", function(json, url) { eventSource.loadJSON(json, url); }); I would like to connect it json output. tl.loadJSON("http://mywebsite.com/events/json/",…
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Is there a replacement for SIMILE Solvent?

The SIMILE Project at MIT produced a series of tools useful for in-browser screen scraping, namely Piggy Bank, Solvent and Crowbar. These projects now appear defunct; the website has had few wiki updates since 2008. The Firefox extensions no longer…
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Simile Timeline change order of lines

How do I change the vertical order of event lines in Simile Timeline? Where in the code does it decide what order to put them in?
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How to remove dates from band in Simile Timeline

Is there a parameter in the theme or in createBandInfo where I can turn off the date labels for one band? Preferably without affecting the dotted interval lines. Or is there maybe a way to use css to format the dates? Timeline documentation is…
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Simile Timeline displays when opened directly but not when opened by servlet

Essentially I have a servlet that opens a page timeline.html which uses the simile timeline widget. When the webpage is opened directly from user.dir/timeline.html, the timeline displays perfectly. But when the webpage is opened by the servlet on…
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SIMILE Timeline - hosting on your own server

I was wondering if anyone had any experience with hosting MIT's SIMILE Timeline on their own server. I have been trying to do so for a few days now, following the instructions provided via…
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Loading JavaScript API in SharePoint - Timing Issues

I have a Content Editor Web Part in SharePoint 2007 that includes a function to insert several tags on the page with different JavaScript sources. For some reason, it takes about 4-5 minutes and several refreshes in order to get one of my…
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JSONP convert function in Simile 3.0

I'm using Simile to display some data. I have a JSONP file which I have to format correctly before using it. Using JSONP example from Exhibit website I have been able to do so using 2.2 version of the Exhibit API:
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At what volume of data does a JSON data structure become too slow?

I'm using MIT's Simile to display thumbnails and links with faceted filtering. I works great, but large data sets (greater than 500 elements) start to slow significantly. My user base will tolerate seconds, but not 10's of seconds, and certainly…
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Trying to load Simile timeline with json data from controller

When I try to load a Simile Timeline with data from the server I get this message: Failed to load json data from {"events": [{ "description":"Oswald moves to New Orleans, and finds employment at the William B. Riley Coffee Company.", "end":"Wed…
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