Towards digital twins of territories through semantic story maps

Digital maps greatly support storytelling about territories, especially when enriched with data describing cultural, societal, and ecological aspects, conveying emotional messages that describe the territory as a whole. Story maps are interactive online digital narratives that can describe a territory beyond its map by enriching the map with text, pictures, videos, and other multimedia information. This paper outlines how online story maps can fill the gap between a map and a territory in narratives to create a digital twin of different territories as inter-connected semantic stories