One way to get an overview of research is to visualise the timeline of activities in that area. This is what I attempted to do with my timeline of dialectical/dialogue game research which will be available in an upcoming publication (currently in press, more information when I have it).
However, what I didn't like was that the journal publication is very static, and that the research is ongoing. What I wanted was something that was more dynamic and which could be easily updated with references to either new research that is performed or to newly discovered obscure publications that contribute to the story. To this end I have started The Chronos Project which uses some exciting new technologies to dynamically generate the timeline in your browser.
The aim was to produce a self-contained set of files which can be easily incorporated into any website. A Chronos distribution is simply a folder containing an html file, some javascript libraries, and some CSS to make things look nice. As well as the online visualisation, you can retrieve the pdf rendering of the timeline either from figshare or from the Chronos Git Repo.
Acknowledgements:
Chronos uses the CanViz project to render xdot files directly onto an HTML 5 canvas within your browser.
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