On the surface, Nines is a searchable database for nineteenth-century studies (their name stands for “a networked infrastructure for nineteenth-century electronic scholarship”). When you go beneath the surface, however, there is a great deal of potential to be explored.
The software behind Nines is the open-source Collex, which allows you to collect objects found within searches, organize them, compare them, and in other ways develop new approaches to your scholarship. Imagine this type of tool for a topic you are researching in depth.
Research is changing, and the rate of change is increasing.
