Understanding Textual Uncertainty in Dates Using Interactive Timelines

This paper explores what is understood by common uncertainty terms (e.g., circa, approximately, around) and how the associated date information affects the perceived range of a given date. This is accomplished through a study incorporating an interactive timeline. Participants are presented with a date and associated uncertainty term, and instructed to mark the possible and probable extents. The results from the study have been used to produce guidelines on the capture of dates, in order to include textual uncertainty and represent them visually.

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Sam Cottrell

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Publication date: July 2017

Publication date (Print): July 2017

Pages: 68-73

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[0001]Royal College of Art

London SW7 2EU, UK

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2017.13

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2017)

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 11 – 13 July 2017

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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[1] S. BasuG. B. Waymire 2006 Recordkeeping and human evolution Accounting Horizons 20 3 201 229

[2] G. P. BonneauH. C. HegeC. R. JohnsonM. M. OliveiraK. PotterP. RheingansT. Schultz 2014 Overview and state-of-the-art of uncertainty visualization Scientific Visualization 3 27 Springer London

[3] J. FuldaM. BrehmelT. Munzner 2016 TimeLineCurator: Interactive authoring of visual timelines from unstructured text IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 22 1 300 309

[4] F. KräutliS. Boyd Davis 2013 Known unknowns: Representing uncertainty in historical time K. NgJ. P. BowenS. McDaid EVA London 2013 Electronic Visualisation and the Arts London 29-31 July Electronic Workshops in Computing, BCS

[5] F. Kräutli 2016 Visualising Cultural Data: Exploring Digital Collections Through Timeline Visualisations. PhD Thesis. Royal College of Art

[6] Bristol City Council: Museum Collections http://museums.bristol.gov.uk/ 20 March 2017

[7] Collections – National Maritime Museum, http://collections.rmg.co.uk/ 19 March 2017

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[9] Explore the Royal Collection online – Royal Collection Trust, https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/search 20 March 2017

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[12] LACMA Collections, http://collections.lacma.org/ 20 March 2017

[13] National Trust Collections: Home, http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/ 19 March 2017

[14] Poster and Artwork collection online from the London Transport Museum, http://www.ltmcollection.org/posters/ 19 March 2017

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