Known unknowns: representing uncertainty in historical time
- Abstract
- 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.
- Authors
- Florian Kräutli and Stephen Boyd Davis
- Cite
- Kräutli, F. & Boyd Davis, S., 2013. Known unknowns: representing uncertainty in historical time. In K. Ng, J. P. Bowen, & S. McDaid, eds., Proceedings of EVA London. London: BCS Learning and Development Ltd, pp. 61–68. Available at http://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2013.16