StoryMaps Workshop: Tell the Story of Your Research with Place-based Multimedia Narratives
ArcGIS StoryMaps, which combine maps and multimedia content to enable web-based storytelling, have become a popular tool for researchers. They’re being used to communicate complicated analyses, present final projects, and even provide visual resumes. In this session, you will learn the ABCs of StoryMaps, including what they are and how their builder functions make it possible to easily create rich multimedia narratives. The session will describe new and upcoming features of StoryMaps.
The workshop will also include a lecture on copyright considerations when building a StoryMap and a lightning talk to showcase a Yale StoryMap Gallery from Dr. Maria Moreno’s courses.
PROGRAM:
* What are ArcGIS StoryMaps
* A Yale StoryMaps Gallery
* Copyright Insights
* Hands-on Demo
* What’s New and What’s Coming
SPEAKERS:
Allen Carroll is the Program Manager for Storytelling at Esri. He founded Esri’s StoryMaps team, which develops web tools that enable hundreds of thousands of individuals and organizations to tell place-based stories combining interactive maps and multimedia content. He leads an editorial team that publishes story maps and supports a global community of storytellers. Allen came to Esri after 27 years at the National Geographic Society. As chief cartographer, he was deeply involved in the creation of the Society’s renowned reference and wall maps, globes, and atlases. He spearheaded the publication of many new maps and websites, ranging from wall maps and supplement maps for National Geographic magazine to special projects featuring biodiversity and indigenous cultures.
Ross Donihue is a lead content strategist on Esri’s StoryMaps team. He produces content to support Esri’s diverse storytelling community. Ross is a National Geographic Explorer and has a master’s in environmental management from the Yale School of the Environment.
Sandra Aya Enimil is the Program Director for Scholarly Communication and Information Policy at Yale University Library. At Yale, Sandra contributes to advancing openness by providing strategic insight, information and resources on scholarly communication and open scholarship. She also consults with Yale researchers on using copyrighted materials and assists creators in protecting their own copyright. Sandra is the License Review Steering Committee chair and provides input on licenses of all types for the library. Sandra collaborates with individuals and departments within the library and across campus. She has given numerous presentations on various aspects of copyright and scholarly communication. Prior to this role, she was the Copyright Librarian and Contracting Specialist for Yale University Library. Sandra is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and is interested in the intersection of DEI and intellectual property. Sandra earned her Law and MSLIS degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sandra has BAs in Political Science and Psychology from the University of Michigan and an MA in International Relations from the University of Ghana.
Dr. Maria Moreno received the BSc and MSc degrees at Iowa State University and completed her graduate studies at Yale University. Her doctoral studies focused on the utility of the Activator/Dissociation transposable element system to develop insertional mutagenesis and fine structure genetic mapping strategies in maize. Her postdoctoral studies were conducted in plant molecular genetics at the University of California-Berkeley under the mentorship of Dr. Michael Freeling. There, she characterized at the molecular level the maize ligulesless 1 gene, a leaf architecture trait that has been identified as an important target for yield improvement in several cereal crops. She is currently a Research Scientist and Senior Lecturer at Yale University in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology. Her current research interests focus on developing technologies for population genomics to enhance food security. She also serves as Academic Coordinator and Instructor for the Science, Technology and Research Scholars (STARS) program at Yale College, a program that provides support to women, minority, economically underprivileged and other historically underrepresented students in STEM. The program seeks to improve student performance and persistence rates in all STEM disciplines.