Chronological organization - Topics

Sorting a bibliography by publication year fakes intellectual progress Archives file by provenance first and by date second and the order matters Reverse-chronological feeds hide the accumulation that chronological files reveal The International Time Capsule Society keeps a registry because most capsules get lost A parish register's entries are not in the order the volume was written A diary's gap is itself a record Turning an oral history interview into a chronology reorders the speaker's meaning Museum wall timelines bunch up the twentieth century and stretch the Bronze Age What gets left off a timeline is the editorial decision Photo libraries sort by capture date until the EXIF is wrong A timeline without a scale is an argument disguised as a diagram Why a finding aid arranged by date fails a researcher who needs it by place Two hundred events on one line become a wall and swimlanes are the fix Memoir order vs discovery order: what a flashback buys and what it costs Chronological vs thematic arrangement in a museum's permanent collection Time-keyed logs and event-keyed logs are different databases wearing the same name Case files keep a chronology of facts separate from the pleadings on purpose