Collaborative GIS platforms for Storytelling - Case Study: Battleship Averof

Content Management Systems [1] are widely used in web sites and portals lately, promoting collaboration among groups of users. Collaboration applies to many fields and storytelling in the Web is one of them. When a group of users can contribute into telling a story the result could be apart from a more detailed story, an interesting educational method. Since the main purpose of a storyteller is to make the audience interested in the story, then ways to achieve this should be found. Visualizing the story is one of these ways. Interactive maps create a visual story and give an easily accessible starting place from which users can explore at their own pace based on their own interests. In this paper the need to integrate collaborative storytelling with collaborative GIS in the Web is stated and the use of historical map collections for this purpose is validated.