Visual Essays with Juncture
Visual Essays with Juncture In-Person
Instructor: Meriç Özölçer (Digital Scholarship Graduate Fellow)
This workshop will provide a basic introduction to Juncture, an open-source framework for building simple, attractive websites for visual essays developed by JSTOR Labs and Dumbarton Oaks. We will discuss the basics of visual essays: interactive and responsive compositions where text and visual elements work together to convey ideas. When you craft a visual essay, you have the chance to control the relationship between your narrative and its visual elements with precision. Additionally, your readers will be able to seamlessly transition between your words and your visual supplements; for examples, see the Plant Humanities Lab.
Participants will learn how to work with Juncture and its underlying technologies, including Markdown, a simple, human-readable markup language, GitHub, and Wikidata. After going over the multitude of elements which can be integrated to a visual essay, we will examine some of these in detail. At the end of the session, each participant will ‘launch’ their basic visual essay.
Participants are encouraged to bring personal laptops for this workshop. Please make sure to create a GitHub account prior to the first session (which can be done here.)
- Date:
- March 31, 2022
- Time:
- 4:15pm - 5:45pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Carpenter Digital Media and Collaboration Lab (DMCL)
- Host:
- Library & Information Technology Services
- Audience:
- Faculty Staff Students
- Categories:
- Digital Competencies Digital Scholarship Tech Learning Opportunities Workshop