juncture
Create and share rich, interactive essays in minutes!
**Features Overview:** - **Quick Creation**: Create essays or full websites with ease. - **Minimal Setup**: No ongoing administration needed. - **User-Friendly Editor**: Drag-n-drop with live preview. - **Flexible Viewers**: Display images, video, audio, maps, diagrams, and more. - **Content Integration**: Use web resources alongside your own. - **Annotation Tools**: Annotate images and text easily. - **[IIIF-Enabled](/docs/iiif)**: Leverage high-quality digital objects. - **Open Source**: Built on open tools and data formats.
Welcome to Juncture
Juncture is a suite of tools and services that helps anyone easily create engaging web pages enriched with visual content like interactive images, videos, maps, and more.
Juncture evolved from a project developed by JSTOR Labs that used visual essays for digital storytelling. Visual essays are text narratives enhanced with interactive visuals that provide depth and context.
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Examples of What You Can Create
This demo essay shows what’s possible with Juncture. It features a high-resolution image, videos, an interactive map, and viewer interactions—plus information popovers for places mentioned in the text. You can find more examples and inspiration on the Juncture Examples site.
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What Problem Does Juncture Solve?
Juncture makes advanced web technologies—like deep-zoom images, panning features, and interactive maps—accessible to everyone, regardless of technical skills. If you want to share stories or information on the web in an engaging way, Juncture is for you. All you need to get started is a GitHub account, which is free and easy to set up.
Check out our Quick Start guide to give Juncture a try. Whether you’re looking to create interactive visual essays or simple web pages without hassle, Juncture could be just what you need. Setting up a Juncture website costs nothing and can be accomplished in just a few minutes.
How People Use Juncture
1. Education
Juncture supports a wide range of educational uses:
- Instructors can create resources for classroom or remote learning. You can even add the Hypothes.is annotation tool for class discussions.
- Students can use Juncture for individual or group projects, whether to write essays or to learn about digital technologies for information sharing.
2. Blogging and Travelogues
Creating web pages with text and images is quick and easy with Juncture, making it perfect for blogs or travelogues. Add interactive maps and photos from your smartphone to bring your stories to life.
3. Themed Websites
Multiple Juncture essays can be combined to create full websites. You can even add a custom domain. Great examples of this include Plant Humanities Lab and Kent Maps Online.
4. Flexible Applications
Juncture is flexible—there are countless ways to use it! We’d love to hear how you use Juncture. Feel free to connect with us via our Contact page to share your projects or submit essays for inclusion in the Juncture Examples site.