By Dana Wheeles on October 18, 2012
[cross-posted from the Juxta blog] As the Juxta R&D team has worked to take the desktop version of our collation software to the web, I’ve found myself thinking a great deal about the critical apparatus and its role when working with digital (digitized?) texts. In the thumbnails above, you can see a page image from […]
Posted in digital humanities, juxta, juxtacommons, usability |
By Dana Wheeles on January 21, 2011
Last year I wrote a post leveraging the new analytics data we’d begun keeping for NINES, breaking down our site activity based on new members, tagged and collected objects. When starting a tradition such as this, one always hopes that each year will be better than the last — and I’m happy to say that […]
Posted in classroom, development, digital humanities, usability |
By Dana Wheeles on January 19, 2011
Like most finding aids, NINES offers users various options for constraining searches. You have the choice of adding other search terms, phrases (exact searches can be completed by putting the phrase in quotation marks), names, or even a date (in YYYY format). But on the right-hand side of your search screen, NINES offers a number […]
Posted in collex, featured search, miscellaneous, usability |
By Dana Wheeles on October 20, 2009
The University of Nebraska – Lincoln’s superb resource, The Journals of Lewis & Clark Online is now available through NINES. From the print edition edited by Gary Moulton, the NEH-funded resource is overseen by an editorial advisory board and now includes over one thousand rigorously encoded digital objects. The site features audio, video, text and […]
Posted in american studies, scholarly projects, usability |
By Dana Wheeles on September 21, 2009
In addition to the blog, we’ve set aside a thread in the NINES Forum for feature suggestions or questions about the site. Have you had trouble finding something in NINES? Are there new ways to work with your data that you’d like us to explore? Sign into your account and head on over to let […]
Posted in collex, features, usability |
By Dana Wheeles on June 15, 2009
Until recently, sites peer reviewed and federated into NINES could be most quickly identified by visiting the NINES website itself. In an effort to make this process simpler, we’ve created a badge that also serves as a search widget, seen here on the home page of the Poetess Archive. From this box, users can open […]
Posted in collex, features, usability | Tagged collex, nines, widget |
By Dana Wheeles on June 10, 2009
Visitors to NINES will soon be greeted by a new front page, the final step in a redesign phase that began in June of 2008. After the usability studies in July and November of last year, the site was rearranged, moving the Search, Tags, Exhibits and About pages into their own separate tabs in the […]
Posted in collex, digital humanities, redesign, usability | Tagged collex, nines, press, redesign, software |
By Dana Wheeles on April 30, 2009
We’ve been adding a number of resources to NINES in the past few months, which might make it tough to keep up with all the new material. In addition to saved searches (which apply your preferred constraints to the ever-growing body of objects on the site), the NINES tag cloud can be a useful way […]
Posted in features, usability | Tagged browse, tags |
By Dana Wheeles on March 3, 2009
When you log into NINES today, you may notice some changes to the interface. We’ve polished our search results so that they’re easier to read at a glance: the title is larger and more eye-catching, and we’ve re-ordered the object metadata for better browsing. User tags have now been exposed for each object, […]
Posted in collex, features, usability |
By Dana Wheeles on February 3, 2009
You can save your searches in NINES and share them with others. Permalinks were broken temporarily when we launched the redesign, but we’ve brought them back and made them easier to use. Just sign into your account and save your results from the search screen. In your list of saved searches on the My 9s […]
Posted in collex, features, redesign, usability |