List of proof of concepts

Open Archives as a whole is an experiment, it drives innovative development. Some experiments are not implemented on the whole website yet, but do have a separate page to present the idea.

• October 4, 2013Presentation of VOC-crew - by using a timeline the date is more insightful
• October 18, 2013Street name links to old map 1 - marker on a plan of Leiden from 1897 (CC-BY-SA)
• October 19, 2013Street name links to old map 2 - marker on a plan of Noordwijk from 1913 (CC-BY-SA)
• October 22, 2013Links to scans on FamilySearch - link to scans outside the archive
• October 31, 2013Census Rijnsburg (Netherlands) 1840 - interactive data visualisation
• December 8, 2013Streetview Leiden - streets as lines on historical map
• December 23, 2013Link explorer - automatically find related persons from a 'start' record and presenting these in a dynamic graph
• December 28, 2013People timeline - alternative view of persons in a census, more insights by using timeline
• January 31, 2014Biographies - linking birth and death records to biographies via the Dutch Biography Portal
• March 27, 2014Netherlands War Graves Foundation - link between records and the victim register
• May 13, 2014Vluchtelingen uit België, geregistreerd in Tilburg - visualisatie op de kaart
• July 26, 2014Chord Diagram of links between sources
• July 30, 2014HISGIS - Historische persoonsgegevens vanuit Kadaster 1832 doorzoekbaar op naam

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.