Herodotus: Managing historical data

Herodotus is a framework for managing historical data in Actionscript 3. A key part of the framework is a suite of parsers for popular temporal data formats. The imported data is converted to the native ASDateTime formats. For more information on ASDateTime see the Latham.

The Objective: Managing historical data in AS3
To import, store and manage historical data.

Deliverable: Temporal parsers
[status: planning] org.computus.io.*
A set of functions to import and parse feeds and files in popular temporal standards. The parsers should import data and convert it to native ASDateTime objects.

Resources

Journal entries
All the journal entries for this project can be found here.

Essential reading:
- Book: "Big History: From Big Bang to the Present" by Stokes Brown and Cynthia
- Book: "Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History" by David Christian
- Book: "What on Earth Happened?: The Complete Story of the Planet, Life and People from the Big Bang to the Present Day" by Christopher Lloyd
- Book: "A Handbook of Dates: For Students of British History" by C. R. Cheney and Michael Jones
- Audiobook: "Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity" by David Christian

Herodotus

The Roman philosopher Cicero was the first to regard Herodotus of Halicarnassus as the "Father of history". The title was bestowed upon him largely for his book "The Histories" which documented the wars between Greece and Persia. Written in around 430BC the work is most notable for Herodotus' methods of research. He pioneered the importance of relying on original sources, and travelled widely whilst writing the book.

"Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects."

Herodotus of Halicarnassus
Greek historian