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By Dana Wheeles on March 9, 2011
Access to NINES will be intermittent between the hours of 5p.m. and midnight (EST) tonight, March 9, in order for us to complete some upgrades and refinements to the site. Please bear with us as we work to make NINES faster and easier to use!
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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 […]
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By Dana Wheeles on September 24, 2010
If you’re interested in textual studies and collation, head on over to the Juxta website to read about the release of Version 1.4. We’ve adapted the application’s import options to accommodate all forms of XML, with TEI-encoded files as the default. With these features released, the development team will now turn to the task of […]
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By Dana Wheeles on August 4, 2010
The most recent update to Collex includes a new feature that serves up Zotero-friendly metadata for all of NINES objects in search results, tag lists and Publication groups. This is the first in a series of development tasks in which we hope to better integrate NINES with the superb Firefox plug-in created by the Center […]
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By Dana Wheeles on July 14, 2010
Good news! Google has offered its support to help us develop Juxta into a web application: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/our-commitment-to-digital-humanities.html We are thrilled to have received this competitive award, and look forward to working to optimize Juxta for the web. Here is an abstract of our application for the Google Award: With the support of a Google Digital […]
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By Dana Wheeles on January 5, 2010
On my flight home from MLA in Philadelphia last week I took a moment to think about how NINES has changed since last year’s conference in San Francisco. In December of 2008 the first phase of the NINES redesign had just been launched as part of a major re-organization and outreach effort. Since then, phase […]
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By Dana Wheeles on December 8, 2009
NINES has been investigating new ways to facilitate browsing in the Collex interface, resulting in a new, experimental feature, the name browser, as a way to target authors, editors and publishers associated with a set of results. Once a … Continue reading →
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By Dana Wheeles on November 5, 2009
To all NINES users who may have been inconvenienced by our recent maintenance: many thanks for your patience! One of the most useful new features we’ve added in this update is the ability to sort your search results by Title, Date and Name, making it easier to find the objects you’re looking for in NINES. […]
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By Dana Wheeles on October 28, 2009
Attention all NINES users: we’ll be doing some maintenance on the site for the next 24 hours, so please bear with us if you encounter any difficulties accessing your account. We’re hoping that the work done this week will make your experience smoother, faster and all around better – but there may be a few […]
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