Lacuna Stories
Lacuna Stories’ unique annotation tools encourage skills such as historical thinking, close reading, and a critical comparison of sources. Lacuna Stories’ diverse, multimedia environment provides tools for instructors, students, and the general public to “mend” the gaps in knowledge of major historical events and to develop their own narratives. Within humanities education, specifically, the interactive, multimedia functionality of Lacuna Stories goes beyond simply replacing print reading and viewing practices. Instead, Lacuna Stories creates new and exciting opportunities to engage with various texts and media in ways that reflect the networked state of knowledge today.
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D3.js
D3.js is a data visualization library by Mike Bostock, who is also the primary creator of Protovis, which D3 is designed to replace. There is a great introductory tutorial available from Luke Franci. It is one of many other tutorials linked to from Bostock's D3 wiki.
Drupal
Drupal is an extremely flexible general content management system with numerous plugins that provide scholar-oriented functionality.
JavaScript