Library Guides: Digital Storytelling with Tulane Exhibits: Other Publishing Platforms

Tulane arcGIS Online Portal: StoryMaps

ArcGIS StoryMaps
Tell remarkable stories, even with custom maps, that inform and inspire. Part of the Tulane ArcGIS Online Portal. StoryMaps are hosted and open to all Tulane affiliates who wish to create one.

Digital Storytelling with ArcGIS StoryMaps
by Sean Knowlton Last Updated Mar 18, 2025 172 views this year

For your consideration

Tulane University Libraries does not host or support the publishing platforms listed below. However, we are including them here for those whose skills and interests may open the doors to additional options when developing digital exhibits or other digital publishing efforts.

StoryMaps
StoryMaps is a new free/premium-paid product that is not part of the ArcGIS System.
Quire (Getty)
an open-source multiformat publishing tool designed for longevity, discoverability, and scholarship. Using a single set of plain text files, Quire creates books as authoritative and enduring as print and as vibrant and feature-rich as the web—all without paying a fee or maintaining a complicated server.
Juncture (from JSTOR Labs)
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.
Omeka Classic
A web publishing platform for individuals and educators for sharing digital collections and creating media-rich online exhibits.
Omeka S
A next-generation web publishing platform for institutions interested in connecting digital cultural heritage collections with other resources online.
CollectionBuilder
An open source tool for creating digital collection and exhibit websites that are driven by metadata and powered by modern static web technology
CollectionBuilder-GH
A template for creating small digital collection exhibits on GitHub Pages designed for teaching digital library skills
Curatescape
Curatescape is a web and mobile app framework for publishing location-based content using the Omeka content management system.
Wax
A minimal computing project for producing digital exhibitions focused on longevity, low costs, and flexibility. Our underlying technology is made to learn and to teach, and can produce beautifully rendered, high-quality image collections and scholarly exhibits.
Mukurtu CMS
The free, mobile, and open source platform built with Indigenous communities to manage and share digital cultural heritage.
Scalar
A free, open-source authoring and publishing platform for long-form, born-digital scholarship. Scalar enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own analysis.