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Known Unknowns: Representing Uncertainty in Historical Time

Author(s) -

Florian Kräutli,

Stephen Boyd Davis

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

electronic workshops in computing

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

ISSN - 1477-9358

DOI - 10.14236/ewic/eva2013.16

Subject(s) - timeline , computer science , representation (politics) , visualization , data science , data visualization , information retrieval , data mining , mathematics , statistics , politics , political science , law

Historic time is inherently uncertain, with missing, disputed, doubtful or ill-defined dates for objects and events. Yet digital timeline visualisations tend to represent it as exact and of undisputed confidence. This is partly due to a lack of awareness, partly due to a lack of support for ambiguities in digital data types and modes of representation. We outline some of the issues around uncertainty in timeline visualisation and ways of addressing them.

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