{"id":1393,"date":"2013-03-13T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T10:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/msr_er\/2013\/03\/13\/chronozoom-named-top-educational-resource-at-2013-sxsw-interactive\/"},"modified":"2016-08-22T15:02:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T22:02:51","slug":"chronozoom-named-top-educational-resource-at-2013-sxsw-interactive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/blog\/chronozoom-named-top-educational-resource-at-2013-sxsw-interactive\/","title":{"rendered":"ChronoZoom Named Top Educational Resource at 2013 SXSW Interactive"},"content":{"rendered":"
When Microsoft Research teamed up with the University of California Berkeley to create a digital tool for exploring the history of everything, we knew we had the potential to build a killer educational app. After all, a tool that can reveal the cross-currents of history, revealing the interdependencies that cut across disciplines, geographies, and cultures, would offer a major advance in the understanding of Big History\u2014the history of not just humanity, but of life, Earth and, ultimately, the cosmos. Moreover, it would provide researchers with a tool to derive unique insights based on multidisciplinary connections between vastly disparate data sets.<\/p>\n
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On March 12, the resulting tool, ChronoZoom\u2014a dynamic, zoomable timeline that starts with Big Bang and ends with modern history\u2014won first prize in the Educational Resources category of the 2013 SXSW Interactive Awards (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>. As described on the SXSW website, the SXSW Interactive Awards competition \u201cuncovers the best new digital work, from mobile and tablet apps to websites and installations, while celebrating those who are building tomorrow’s interactive trends.\u201d<\/p>\n ChronoZoom was developed to make time relationships between different studies of history clear and vivid. In the process, it provides a framework for exploring related electronic resources. It thus serves as a \u201cmaster timeline,\u201d tying together all kinds of specialized timelines and electronic resources, and aspires to bridge the gap between humanities and the sciences and to bring together and unify all knowledge of the past. With the planned addition of in-browser content and authoring tools, we hope to enable educators and researchers to build timelines; explore rich, multidisciplinary contextual spaces; and to tell and share stories based on authoritative data.<\/p>\n