I’m currently thinking about enhancements for the timelines feature in Aleph. One common user request is to actually visualize timeline items. For example like this:
Every entity would be represented by a bar. The position and length of the bar depends on the start and end date of the entity. Which properties should be considered the start/end date of an entity can be different per entity.
It’s fairly simple for interval entities -- as they all have date/startDate and endDate properties. It’s not that simple in other cases, and there might be even multiple properties that could be used as an entites start/end date.
| Schema |
start date |
end date |
LegalEntity |
incorporationDate |
dissolutionDate |
File |
date, authoredAt, publishedAt |
|
Contract |
contractDate |
|
CourtCase |
fileDate |
closeDate |
| … |
… |
… |
I’m not 100% sure about this yet (and whether this should be part of the FtM model), but wanted to bring this up for discussion early. Also we already do something similar with the edge metadata.
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I’m currently thinking about enhancements for the timelines feature in Aleph. One common user request is to actually visualize timeline items. For example like this:
Every entity would be represented by a bar. The position and length of the bar depends on the start and end date of the entity. Which properties should be considered the start/end date of an entity can be different per entity.
It’s fairly simple for interval entities -- as they all have
date/startDateandendDateproperties. It’s not that simple in other cases, and there might be even multiple properties that could be used as an entites start/end date.LegalEntityincorporationDatedissolutionDateFiledate,authoredAt,publishedAtContractcontractDateCourtCasefileDatecloseDateI’m not 100% sure about this yet (and whether this should be part of the FtM model), but wanted to bring this up for discussion early. Also we already do something similar with the
edgemetadata.Related: