waffle-iron / topotime

Topotime is a digital humanities project aimed at joining Place and Period (space and time) in conceptual models, data formats, and software for geo-historical research.

Topotime

topo (from Greek τοπο-, a combining form of τόπος place)

Topotime is a digital humanities project aiming to join Place and Period (space and time) in conceptual models, data formats, and software for geo-historical research. We are developing an experimental extension to the GeoJSON data format standard, and open-source software to utilize it.

The project's planned work products include:

• GeoJSON-T, adding temporal ("when") elements to GeoJSON, making it suitable for representing
  • historical gazetteer records
  • attestations of historical geographic movement, such as journeys, routes, and flows (e.g. of commodities, people, or information)
  • historical periods
• Topotime.js, a JavaScript library for rendering GeoJSON-T data to a web map linked to a traditional timeline and/or temporal geometry visualizations. Its dependencies will include the Leaflet, Simile Timeline, and D3 libraries, as well as...
• Topotime.py, a Python program for generating temporal geometries from GeoJSON‑T data

All of these are under active development, so the contents of this repo are dynamic "works-in-progress." Comments, suggestions, and reasonably polite brickbats are welcome.

Documentation will be maintained on the Topotime project wiki

Contributors
Karl Grossner (kgeographer; twitter:@kgeographer); Merrick Lex Berman (vajlex); Rainer Simon (rsimon); Elijah Meeks (v0.1; emeeks)