Simile Timeline

Here comes the Semantic web...

"SIMILE is focused on developing robust, open source tools based on Semantic Web technologies that improve access, management and reuse among digital assets."

"Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events. "

"Exhibit is a lightweight structured data publishing framework that lets you create web pages with support for sorting, filtering, and rich visualizations by writing only HTML and optionally some CSS and Javascript code."