Wiki SaGa: an Interactive Timeline to Visualize Historical Documents

• Main Authors: Tan, Daniel Yong Wen, Bali, Ranaivo-Malançon, Narayanan, Kulathuramaiyer
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2015
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10570/1/NO%20148%20Wiki%20SaGa%20%28abstract%29.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10570/; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84923176709&partnerID=40&md5=022b15cc891f1b0b89f009c94bfe4a68
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Searching for information inside a repository of digitised historical documents is a very common task. A timeline interface that represents the historical content which can perform the same search function will reveal better results to researchers. This paper presents the integration of SIMILE Timeline within a wiki, named Wiki SaGa, containing digitised version of Sarawak Gazette. The proposed approach allows display of events and relevant information search compared to traditional list of documents.