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Is there a way to make a bibliography in your web map tour?

JanieGoddard — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 21:14:04 GMT

I was wondering if there is a way to make a bibliography for the web map tour? I was thinking of writing my text in a Word document with the references to the bibliography. Then copying the text into the caption for each picture with its' reference. I could make the actual bibliography into a PDF and publish it. I would use it as the last main picture. However, it would be cool, if that could be the entire final screen. Any ideas? I realize this is kinda patching it together. I want to see if there is a "right" way to do this. Thanks, Janie

Re: Is there a way to make a bibliography in your web map tour?

RupertEssinger — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 01:00:22 GMT

There's no way to modify the final screen like that. You could add a hyperlink to your PDF file by adding HTML tags to the subtitle of your Map Tour or the caption of the last picture in your tour.

Rupert

Re: Is there a way to make a bibliography in your web map tour?

RupertEssinger — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 02:16:41 GMT

Here's an example of a references link added into a Story Map Tour's subtitle:

St. John's, Newfoundland Heritage Sites

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapTour/index.html?appid=4c63795ae5d64d52a520752381be07e3

I think it works better though not to have a link to a separate list of references and instead just include reference info in the captions of the pictures. perhaps using HTML tags to format the reference text like the photographer references in this tour:

Some Places to Go in San Diego, California

https://story.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapTour/index.html?appid=d1ef0471365e400ebb540472b477871e

Rupert

Re: Is there a way to make a bibliography in your web map tour?

JanieGoddard — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 19:01:19 GMT

Rupert,

in the San Diego map tour, I was wondering about the photo credits HTML. What size and name of the font were you using??

Here is my proposed HTML tag:

Photo: Dr. Christine Hallman - Lecture 1

Thanks,

Janie

Re: Is there a way to make a bibliography in your web map tour?

RupertEssinger — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 20:01:15 GMT

Hi Janie

Here's the complete caption including HTML tags from one of the places in my similar San Diego Places To Eat Map Tour:

New wave Mexican restaurant in the upscale new Headquarters, an adaptive re-use of a historic police station. Lively, interesting space with large patio. Tuesday evening deals on tacos & drinks are popular with locals. There's a small museum opposite where you can go into one of the building's original cell blocks. <a href="http://www.eatpuesto.com/" style="color:red" target="_blank">Website</a> <hr>Neighborhood: Marina District 789 West Harbor Drive in The Headquarters Photo: Courtesy of Jaime Partners / Christopher W. Mayer

I've put the CSV file that I uploaded into the Story Map Tour builder to create the tour online here so you can download it.

There's a lot of HTML formatting in each caption, so to generate the captions I created the CSV file using an Excel spreadsheet in which the Description field is generated via an Excel formula that concatenates it altogether so you don't need to copy and paste tags into each record. I've put that Excel file online here too if you want to download it and look at that formula.

Rupert

Re: Is there a way to make a bibliography in your web map tour?

JanieGoddard — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 20:07:47 GMT

Hi Rupert,

Thanks so much. This will save me lots of time! I sure appreciate it!

Janie