Storying Extinction
A multidisciplinary digital humanities project that represents community response to the recent extirpation (2019) of southern mountain caribou from the South Selkirk mountains of North Idaho—the last caribou to inhabit the coterminous United States.
Models Of : Deep Mapping Student Projects
People: Devin Becker (University of Idaho Library) , Jack Kredell , Chris Lamb
About Storying Extinction
The site is built on a heavily customized version of CollectionBuilder, placing the collection items on a map that users can navigate by mouse or keyboard. The site features several essays and multi-modal features that are written with and through items contained in the digital collection underlying it. That collection features trailcam photographs and video, as well as oral history videos and contextual/historical images and documents.
Uses: Jekyll; Ruby; JavaScript; JSON; Leaflet; Tufte.css
A trail cam video of a Moose in the Selkirk Mountain Range
Curated trails for browsing trailcam footage on a map
A fake 404 …
record contributor:
Devin Becker (University of Idaho Library)
last update: 2021-08-04