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 technologies 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 free and open technologies like Wikidata, 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.
An interest in visual storytelling - Juncture lowers the barriers to building interactive essays that augment text with rich and engaging visualizations.
10 minutes to create your first visual essay - Roll up your sleeves and see for yourself how quick and easy it is to create and share an interactive visual essay.
A (free) Github account - Juncture uses Github, a free-to-use file hosting service and much more, to store visual essays.
The first step in getting acquainted with Juncture is to create a simple visual essay in your personal Github account. Write an essay about a topic you like and follow this visual essay quick start guide to visualize your essay. It will take about 10 minutes to prepare the interactive essay.
Each visual essay has a default web address that can be used for viewing and sharing the essay. Other URLs, including your own custom domain name can be used if you create a Juncture site. This viewing and sharing visual essays guide provides simple instructions for accessing and sharing your visual essays.
Juncture can be used to create a full-featured website that includes multiple visual essays and other content pages. This creating a juncture site quick start guide provides step-by-step instructions for creating and configuring a new Juncture site. Instructions are also provided for adding and modifying content.
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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