Create and share interactive essays using free and open web resources
Juncture is a free-to-use, open source framework for converting simple text files into an engaging visual essay. A visual essay is an interactive and responsive web page that augments a text narrative with visual elements to provide depth and context.
With Juncture you can create a single essay or build a full website consisting of multiple visual essays with navigation, site info pages, contact form, logo, and other simple customizations.
Juncture is open source and free to use and to modify. Adhering to minimal computing principles, Juncture uses static files and open standards to create memorable essays.
Designed for narratives exploring complex and nuanced subjects, Juncture essays are linked open data aware texts augmented with engaging and interactive components, including annotated high-resolution images, network visualizations, interactive maps and other elements.
Because it uses open standards like Markdown, IIIF, GeoJSON, D3, Timeline.js and more, Juncture is a great way to level-up your digital skills. All you need is a Github account and a willingness to learn.
If you don't have a Github account, create a free one at github.com. Log in using the Juncture menu.
Select “Create a new site” from the Juncture menu. This will build a new site in a new repo on your Github account.
Browse to your new site and add a new essay by selecting a template. Add images, maps, and other components by following Juncture’s examples and documentation.
Your Juncture site will run out of Github, where it is easy to connect it to a registered domain name, making it easier to share with the world.
Since it runs out of Github, your Juncture site can be kept private, used for your own purposes or as part of a project-based learning exercise.
Explore the cultural histories of plants and their influence on human societies. The flagship use of Juncture, Plant Humanities Lab was developed as a Dumbarton Oaks and JSTOR Labs collaboration.
Explore themed essays about Kent, a county in South East England. Kent has a rich history and provided inspiration for a number of writers and artists including Charles Dickens.
The team behind Juncture has created ample documentation and sample files to help you create new essays and sites. Have a question or a suggestion? Tell us how we can make Juncture better at labs@ithaka.org.
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