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1 # PLATIN
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2 Place and Time Navigator
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4 a fork and extension of [GeoTemCo](https://github.com/stjaenicke/GeoTemCo)
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6 developed at the [Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science](http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de) with funding from [TOPOI](http://topoi.org) within the Project [Atlas der Innovationen](http://www.topoi.org/group/d-6/).
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8 ## Introduction
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10 PLATIN is a HTML5-based tool for presentation and analysis of spatial and temporal data, with a focus on historical data.
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12 The projects starting goal was to bring the functionality of the [DARIAH](http://www.dariah.eu) [GeoBrowser](http://dev2.dariah.eu/e4d/‎) to [GeoTemCo](http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/geotemco/).
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14 Which added the following functionality:
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15 * CSV loading
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16 * loading of URL-specified datasets
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17 * deletion of datasets and refining of datasets
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18 * exporting of datasets (to KML or CSV files)
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19 * an UI that leaned on the GeoBrowser layout
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20 * full-text search of table data
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21 * WMS and KML overlays
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22 * time-intervals
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23 * upload of data to a data-store
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25 ## Important additional features
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27 The widget-architecture of GeoTemCo led to the creation of following additional features:
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29 ### Dataset loading via URL
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31 Datasets in KML/CSV/JSON format can be loaded via URL. Those attributes of those datasets can be changed, if they don't follow the PLATIN syntax style. Also datasets can be filtered via URL.
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33 ### Pie Charts
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35 Piechart can be created for each "column" of a dataset. The data can either be the distinct values,
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36 categorized, or even generated by an own function (that takes the objects value as an argument).
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38 They are interactive with the other widgets, so a selection/highlight of a pie chart slice will
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39 select/highlight those objects in the other widgets. And a selection/highlight in another widget
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40 will reduce the piechart to those selected/highlighted values.
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42 ### Fuzzy Timeline
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44 If the dataset has uncertain time-data (as with historical/archaeological data) this uncertainity
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45 should be shown and represented in the time-plot. The fuzzy timeline will add an object in such a
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46 way, that its weight is equaly spread across the timespan that is attached to it.
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48 Also it is possible to switch to a bar-chart representation of the data. With bar-intervals of e.g.
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49 1,10,100,... years.
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51 ### Directed Line-Overlay
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53 With this widget it is possibile to add "lines" (optionally arrows) between objects on the map.
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55 If objects are clustered the links will be inherited and line thickness will be increased if
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56 lines are doubled by this clustering.
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58 ### Dataset coloring on element (DataObject) basis
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60 Each DataObject can have an own color, if objects are clustered together, the cluster color
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61 is calculated as the average of the RGB values.
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63 ### Dataset color and shape changing (by user)
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65 (This feature is in beta-state.)
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67 Color and shape (on map) of the datasets can be changed on-the-fly from a dropdown menu in the table header.
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69 ### Story-Telling
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71 (This feature is unstable and under heavy development.)
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73 As this tool also has an focus on data-analysis, it can be interesting to
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74 * record the steps of selection/piechart creation/dataset refining
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75 * go back a step or more in this history of data transformation
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76 * branch this history
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77 * save this history
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78 * send this history to other persons
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79 * create a presentation, or animation, of that history