The Idea Behind Histolines

Histolines is a platform to compile all of historical events in one database with account of time and place. As it matures it will have infinitely detailed record of history that will be easy to navigate and analyze. This platform only intakes the basic information of who, what, where, when and with who. This prevents the usual interpretation and bias inherent in other history sources. Histolines allows anyone to add to our knowledge of history, yet it has build in mechanisms to justify the claim and to filter out fallacious remarks and events of little importance.

Histolines allows you to navigate through time to look at all the known events in any stretch of time. It allows you to look at all the life events of a particular character and collection of characters that overlap in time. With time we want to develop the capability of looking into events of a particular region. (It can be a country, continent or a town). Weather to check the legitimacy, or to find out more about what happened one can explore the event more fully by hitting the detail tab, to read the references or comments or to check which grander historical periods this event belongs to. As histolines growth we can develop timed maps to display the movement of characters throughout time. Histolines democratizes writing, access and interpretation of history.

Histolines has a large collection of birthdays and death dates, list of most major world leaders throughout time, most of US presidents, Supreme Court justices, Senators and Representatives time in office (we are currently working on other countries like Canada and Brittan), most of the movies released in the US, most of the Music Albums released throughout time, most of Oscars nominations and winners, most of Roman Consuls and various other detail that cannot be grouped into a category but should be discovered on your own. We are working on digging for a lot more information, such as Olympic history, other sports results and trades, list of other countries politicians, patent history and whatever kind of data we can get our hands on. Please email us with suggestions of datasets or datasets themselves that we can incorporate into Histolines. But most of the information in the world especially from the past has not been collected into neat tables. That’s why Histolines is so important, as it is the only place for people to compile events of the people who lived in the past into one data driven knowledge base, so that people can use data analytics techniques to better understand our past, and for the average Joe to be able to access his own history.