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      Just in time: defining historical chronographics

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      Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2010) (EVA)
      Electronic Visualisation and the Arts
      5 - 7 July 2010
      Timeline, Chronology, Chronographics, Time, Visualisation, History, Museums
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            Abstract

            The paper is historical in two respects, both concerned with visual representations of past time. Its first purpose is to enquire how visual representations of historical time can be used to bring out patterns in a museum collection. A case study is presented of the visualisation of data with sufficient subtlety to be useful to historians and curators. Such a visual analytics approach raises questions about the proper representation of time and of objects and events within it. It is argued that such chronographics can support both an externalised, objectivising point of view from ‘outside’ time and one which is immersive and gives a sense of the historic moment. These modes are set in their own historical context through original historical research, highlighting the shift to an Enlightenment view of time as a uniform container for events. This in turn prompts new ways of thinking about chronological visualisation, in particular the separation of the ‘ideal’ image of time from contingent, temporary rendered views.

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            Conference
            July 2010
            July 2010
            : 355-362
            Affiliations
            [0001]Lansdown Centre

            Middlesex University

            Cat Hill, Barnet, Herts

            EN4 8HT, UK
            Article
            10.14236/ewic/EVA2010.51
            9caa4d36-42ba-4290-8c57-3a2eafcc2723
            © Stephen Boyd Davis et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2010), London, UK

            This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

            Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2010)
            EVA
            London, UK
            5 - 7 July 2010
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            Electronic Visualisation and the Arts
            History
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            Timeline,Chronographics,History,Time,Visualisation,Museums,Chronology

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