Succession

WORK IN PROGRESS

The Plan

Succession: a tool to trace the succession of leaders in graph form, read the history/biography as you click and work down the years. Nice for studying political history.

Features

• Trace all political lineages (!)
• Include significant contenders, usurpers, and challengers.
• Tag particular nodes (leaders) with attributes that can be searched and filtered
• Support complex range filters and selection filters, such as:
  • Dynasties with more than 3 generations
  • All emperors assassinated within 5 years of their rule
  • Dynasties with interrupted succession

Architecture

Wiki Notes

Micro formats

Info

"The HTML markup produced by this template includes an hCard microformat, which makes the person's details parsable by computers"

• hCard 1.0 Spec: http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard
• Property List: http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard#Property_List
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCard
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Microformats
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Microformats/hcard
• Address only subset of hCard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adr_(microformat)

Format

<div class="vcard">
    <span class="fname"></span>
    <span class="role"></span>
    <span class="bday"></span>
    ...
</div>

Successor and predecssor info is not part of the spec, it must be parsed from wikipedia's infobox.

Example from Trajan's hCard/infobox HTML:

<table>
  <tbody>
    ...

    <tr>
      <th scope="row">Predecessor</th>
      <td><a href="/wiki/Nerva" title="Nerva">Nerva</a></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <th scope="row">Successor</th>
      <td><a href="/wiki/Hadrian" title="Hadrian">Hadrian</a></td>
    </tr>

    ...
  </tbody>
</table>

Examples

Trajan hCard Example

Infobox

Parsing Wikipedia's infobox is another option. Wiki markup has a template for infoboxes that specifies a 'successor' and 'predecessor' key.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_royalty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_officeholder

Example

Amanirenas Info Box

{{Infobox monarch
| name               = Amanirenas
| title              = [[List of monarchs of Kush|Queen]] of [[Kingdom of Kush|Kush]]
| image              = File:Stele hamadab.JPG
| caption            = Meroitic Stela found at Hamadab
| reign              = c. 40–10 BC
| coronation         =
| full name          = Ameniras, Qore and Kandake
| predecessor        = [[Teriteqas]]
| successor          = [[Amanishakheto]]
| spouse             =
| issue              = [[Akinidad]]
| royal house        =
| dynasty            = [[Meroitic period]]
| father             =
| mother             =
| birth_date         = 60s–50s BC
| birth_place        =
| death_date         = c. 10 BC
| death_place        =
| date of burial     =
| place of burial    = [[Jebel Barkal]] (Bar. 4?)
}}

Other Infoboxes

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_Egyptian_dignitary
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_noble
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_peer
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_pharaoh
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_pretender

Example Output