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Scalar 2 User's Guide

Map & Timline Widget Path

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On July 27, 1995, the presidents of the United States and the Republic of Korea dedicated the Korean War Veterans Memorial on the 42nd anniversary of the war's end. The memorial consists of an open triangle filled with 19 stainless-steel figures representing the 4 US military branches who look as if they are on patrol. A shallow reflecting pool fills the circle. Surrounding the soldiers is a wall filled with etchings made from war-related photographs. Another wall lists 22 members of the United Nations that contributed troops or medical support to the Korean War effort.
First known as the new National Museum, the National Museum of Natural History's building opened in 1910 after nearly 10 years of construction. The Museum's Beaux Arts design features a domed rotunda, columns, and a portico. The Museum first housed art, culture, history, geology, and natural history collections until the 1960s when the Museum of Natural History became a separate museum. Today, it is one of the most visited museums in the world, and displays such diverse objects as the Hope Diamond, a complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton, and a live butterfly collection.
The Three Soldiers statue sits a few feet from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall. This statue was added after the Wall opened to complement it and to offer an alternative memorial for critics who disliked the non-traditional design of the Wall. The sculpture's 3 soldiers represent the diversity of the US military by including a Caucasian, African American, and Latino American whose service branch is intentionally ambiguous. Together, they face the Wall of the fallen.

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Timeline Widget The Timeline widget will display content in your Scalar book chronologically via an interactive timeline. All items to be displayed must include must include dcterms:temporal or dcterms:date in the format month, day, year, hour, minute, second (which can be added using the 'Metadata' tab in the page editor). To learn more about adding temporal metadata to items in your Scalar book, see the section on our Timeline Layout.

To add a Timeline widget, click on either the linked or inline widget button in the WYSIWYG editor and then choose “Timeline” from the widget options. Next, use the content selector to choose an item or selection of items to be displayed in the timeline. One can choose individual items at will. One can also choose paths and tags and include the items they contain or tag, respectively, by ticking the box under “Include Children” for that item in the content selector. Additionally, one can populate Scalar’s Timeline widget with content external to the Scalar project in which it appears. To do so, simply select the “External URL” tab in the content selector for the Timeline widget and paste in the url to a Google Sheet containing properly formatted references to content (Scalar’s Timeline widget is powered by Timeline.js which is ordinarily populated using an appropriately formatted Google Sheet. See here, for details.)

Finally, select your formatting options for the widget. If you’d like to include descriptive or explanatory text below the widget, choose “Custom text” under “Caption” and enter it there.
Map Widget The Map widget will plot items in your scalar book on a Google Map. All items to be plotted must include dcterms:coverage or dcterms:spatial (either will work) metadata in the format decimal latitude,decimal longitude (which can be added using the 'Metadata' tab in the page editor). To learn more about adding geospatial metadata to items in your Scalar book, see the section on our Google Map Layout.

To add a Map widget, click on either the linked or inline widget button in the WYSIWYG editor and then choose “Map” from the widget options. Next, use the content selector to choose an item or selection of items to be plotted on the map. One can choose individual items at will. One can also choose paths and tags and include the items they contain or tag, respectively, by ticking the box under “Include Children” for that item in the content selector.

Finally, select your formatting options for the widget. If you’d like to include descriptive or explanatory text below the widget, choose “Custom text” under “Caption” and enter it there.