Neatline is a plugin developed by the University of Virgina Library‘s Scholar’s Lab, for the open source exhibit software Omeka. According to the designers of Neatline, the application “allows scholars, students, and curators to tell stories with maps and timelines. As a suite of add-on tools for Omeka, it opens new possibilities for hand-crafted, interactive spatial and temporal interpretation.”
To test Neatline, a small sample of historical photographs from the Toronto Telegram was used to plot points and integrate historical images with a timeline created by the Portuguese Canadian History Project charting significant events in the Portuguese community in Canada.