This repository contains sources and scripts of a Timeline of Hypertext Systems.
Information about Hypertext Systems is collected from sources and entered into the Wikidata knowledge base. A SPARQL query is used to collect back the basic information from Wikidata and the information is visualized in HTML with Javascript.
Contributions are welcome! Please directly edit Wikidata or comment via GitHub issues!
- The Historic Hypertext Project
- http://histropedia.com/ (another application to create timelines from Wikidata)
- The image shown above is page 1 of Ted Nelson's Workshop in new hyperstructures (see https://archive.org/details/workshopinnewhyp00nels/page/1)
Publications about hypertext systems should be added to Wikidata (WikiCite) for referencing and to build a bibliography. The data can best be visualized with Scholia. Examples:
- topic Hypertext
- topic History of Hypertext
- author Ted Nelson
- series ACM HT conference proceedings
Subdirectory flyer contains a Makefile to generate a flyer about the website (requires Pandoc, XeLaTeX, and Chrome). Call make screenshots; make to generate flyer.pdf.