Digital Scholarship, Digital Media, Digital Humanities: Creating Digital Projects

Recommendations for creating and hosting web content

KNIT is UC San Diego's digital commons, which enables members to easily create public and private websites, groups, and discussion forums. See the Race and Oral History project as an example.

Provide your research and scholarship in open access, including your article postprints, open textbooks that you author, or open journals hosted by UC San Diego. Satisfies UC and funder open access policies. In addition, you works will be cited more often and be accessed more widely. Accepts pdf, video, and audio.

Esri StoryMaps combine interactive maps with text, photos, video and sound to create interactive experiences to communicate your story to others. A UCSD ArcGIS Online Organization account is required to create a StoryMap. StoryMaps published to the public can be viewed by anyone.

Create and share interactive essays using free and open web resources. "All you need to get started is a free Github account."

A collection of StoryMaps created by others. Gather ideas and see what's possible.

A detailed guide of the different components of a StoryMap. This is a good overview guide.

Here's a handful of tried-and-true techniques that will make your so-so story start to really resonate with your audience. Some of these are universal storytelling principles; others are more particular to story maps.

A blog about what’s new in ArcGIS StoryMaps. A great resource to see the latest features in action as well as other tips and tricks. Be sure to check out some of past What's New blogs for other great tips.

Learn ArcGIS provides hands-on tutorials and exercises to teach GIS. This collection of Learn ArcGIS lessons focuses on StoryMaps.

Get started with ArcGIS StoryMaps
Build a story map about a National Geographic scientific expedition undertaken by three researchers to a Guatemalan volcano.

A list of short, simple tips will help you get the most out of the story builder, especially when it comes to smaller features you may have overlooked.

StoryMap navigation provides the ability to add a table of contents or bookmark links that let readers jump to different parts of a story. Scroll to this section to learn more and watch a brief video.

Map actions allow you to enrich your stories with optional map interactions. Map actions are configurable toggle buttons that you can add to any sidecar slide that contains a web map or web scene. When readers select a map action, the appearance of the map changes.

Instructions on how to embed a TimelineJS component in a StoryMap using an Embed block. These steps can be used to embed almost any content into a StoryMap

If you’ve been wondering how to get crisp, clear images throughout your story without having to sacrifice speedy load times, take a look. The tips and best practices that follow, along with some behind-the-scenes support from the builder, will make you an image-wielding wizard in no time.

ArcGIS StoryMaps is regularly updated with new features, enhancements, bug fixes, and performance improvements. These release notes list the updates for each ArcGIS StoryMaps release with the most recent update shown first.