Drawing a SVG timeline with the http://data.bnf.fr data

The National French Library has recently started to release
its data as RDF/XML. Here, I've played with the biographies of the famous French writers to create a simple timeline.

Unfortunately, this timeline is too large to be displayed here. :-)

However, here is the java code I used to generate this map as a SVG document:


See also: Freebase and the History of Sciences

That's it,

Pierre

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Friday , October 2nd 2009.
University of Rouen, BIOtechno Forum
A lecture hall with about 100 PhD students.

Image via wikipedia

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Papiers Aléatoire

I'm starting a new blog called "Papier Aléatoires" (Random Papers). It will contain translations of abstracts in French in order to motivate myself to read more papers and to better understand them (this is my defect: I don't know how to identify a good article: as an example, I remember years ago I read the abstract of THIS paper introducing the siRNA without being interested). Nevertheless I am not certain that I will contribute to this blog on a regular basis.

Contributions are also welcomed: I'll post any french translation of any scholar abstract.
In the future, I may also store the translation in a public (RDF?) file.

Pierre