I'd put the data in Exhibit [1], then figure out how to usefully facet it and display it on a timeline and a map.  Or maybe better yet, try the same in Recollection [2].  And it looks like the Digital Eyes Shiva [3] project does similar things, and works directly from Google spreadsheets.

1. http://www.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/
2. http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/08/full-open-source-release-of-recollection-platform/
3. http://www.viseyes.org/shiva/

-AB

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I've got a small dataset to work with and I'm looking to do some wonky webby xml/xsl/php stuff with it to teach myself something.
Any ideas?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AulwwJLwzDa1dFdNNHViUDkxVUxuQ2pIdnFTVXZfYmc#gid=0is
the data


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