Creating a Story Map based on image keywords?

[LeandraLopez]

I would like to create a Story Map that displays photos based on their geotags but that can also also be sorted by other metadata components like keywords. The keywords are mainly based on fish species names (eg "black rockfish", "lingcod"). Due to the fact that there are many different fish species in these photos, the ideal situation would display the most common species (or photos with greatest number of common keywords) at whatever spatial scale the user is using. Another awesome feature would be the ability for the user to click on keyword and all the photos with that keyword would be highlighted. 

Does this seem within the scope of what Story Maps can do or am I totally in the wrong ballpark?

[RupertEssinger · Accepted solution]

Hi Leandra, that sort of dynamic data discovery user interface with clicking on keywords and sorting you describe isn't really within the scope of story maps, which tend to show authored narratives or fixed inventories of places.

One possible Story Map approach to look at is using Story Map Shortlist to present a set of species and their locations, and use different tabs in the Shortlist to present subsets of them according to different themes. The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) developed a customization of the original v1 Shortlist app to present information about fish stocks that shows that sort of approach: ICES Popular Advice  (Note that is an older app and some of the hyperlinks out to PDF files no longer work).  

Most Story Map use for this sort of inventory presents them as guides you step or browse through, like this Native Trees of the Pacific Northwest example, which uses Story Map Journal: 

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=d3295191730a49f691379d7962b20bb0 

If you used a different non-Story Map app to present your species data, you could embed that app in a Story Map, like Story Map Series, to combine it with other narrative and media. 

There are actually quite a few stories in the Story Maps Gallery related to fish!!
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/en/gallery/#s=0&q=fish&md=storymaps-author:community-story-maps 

Rupert

[LeandraLopez]

Thanks for the helpful reply. Since you mentioned it, is there another non-Story Map app that you might recommend?

[RupertEssinger]

I can't think of a specific one. Perhaps other Geonetters have ideas. You can browse all the configurable apps that are built into ArcGIS Online here: Choose a configurable app—ArcGIS Online Help | ArcGIS 

For example see the Filter app listed under Explore and Summarize data. I've not played with it though.

Rupert