Contributing

Thank you for helping expand the Storytellers by Design resource list. The goal is to keep the repository useful for humanities researchers, teachers, students, and cultural heritage practitioners who want to design research-driven digital stories.

What Fits

Good additions usually meet at least one of these criteria:

• They help create, publish, evaluate, or teach digital storytelling.
• They make humanities sources, collections, or datasets reusable in a story project.
• They are strong examples for discussing narrative design, multimodality, interface choices, access, ethics, or audience.
• They are useful beyond a single discipline, even if the example comes from journalism, games, museums, design, or public scholarship rather than digital humanities.

The list favors open-source, open-access, no-code, low-code, free, and education-friendly resources. Commercial platforms can still be included when their affordances are especially useful for critical comparison.

Item Format

Please suggest resources in this format:

- [Name](https://example.org/) - One short sentence explaining what it is and why it is useful.

For open collections and sources, include a rights note:

- [Name](https://example.org/) - One short sentence explaining the source; rights: CC BY, CC0, public domain, custom terms, or mixed / item-level rights.

For story examples, mention the storytelling aspect:

- [Title](https://example.org/) - One short sentence; demonstrates map, audio, 3D, branching, data, collection tour, ethics, audience, or mixed modality.

Review Criteria

Before suggesting an item, please check:

• The link is stable and publicly reachable.
• The description is short, specific, and neutral.
• The item belongs in the proposed category.
• Rights and reuse terms are clear enough for workshop participants to evaluate.
• The item is not already listed under a different name.

Rights and Attribution

Do not assume that an item is reusable just because it is online. For collections, archives, and media sources, check item-level rights where possible and note restrictions clearly.

When adding examples, link to the original project or institutional page, not to copied media or unofficial mirrors.

How to Contribute

Open a pull request or GitHub issue in the GitHub repository with:

• The resource name.
• The URL.
• The proposed section and subsection.
• A one-sentence description.
• A license or rights note, if relevant.
• One sentence explaining why it helps workshop participants think about digital storytelling.