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How would Story Maps work with 3D content? Would people use it?

ThomasFlynn — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 01:50:08 GMT

Hi everyone! My name's Thomas Flynn, I work as the Cultural Heritage Lead at sketchfab.com - if you've not heard of us before, Sketchfab is a platform to host, view and share 3D models. There are over 3 million models on the site and over 2 million registered users.

I work primarily with the hundreds of museums, libraries, archives, universities, schools and labs to help them create and share 3D. Check out the some of 70,000+ 3D models in the Cultural Heritage & History category for an idea of what people and institutions are already sharing.

Anyway, I was asked by a curator from the British Library about how to add 3D to Story Maps; if it was possible. I'd not heard of Story Maps before but having tried some of the examples on the project's home page, I love what you can do with it!

The long and short of it:

For Story Maps staff: How might Sketchfab go about being supported on the platform? I see that Flickr and Youtube are already supported for image and video and Sketchfab has some solid embed options (including via oEmbed) as well as an extensive API. Feels like some good things might be possible!

For Story Maps users: how useful do you think 3D could be in creating and telling stories? Maybe your institution already has 3D on Sketchfab or it could be a great addition to a story you already have online. All. Feedback. Welcome.

Happy to answer any questions too.

Re: How would Story Maps work with 3D content? Would people use it?

MiaMassicotte — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 16:35:16 GMT

Totally love this idea! Yes, people would use.

Re: How would Story Maps work with 3D content? Would people use it?

ThomasFlynn — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 18:31:20 GMT

Thanks for the feedback, Mia!

Re: How would Story Maps work with 3D content? Would people use it?

RupertEssinger — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 07:47:01 GMT

Re: How would Story Maps work with 3D content? Would people use it?

OwenGeo — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 12:21:51 GMT

Hi Thomas -- Sketchfab looks like a great tool. Since it already has good embed options anyone should already be able to add Sketchfab models to a story map.

If you are working with the Journal or Series templates just choose "web page" for the type of content when you are adding media and you'll see a field for pasting in embed code. If you are working with the Cascade template go to the Link to Content tab and paste the embed code there. Note that <script> tags are not supported in embed code.