Developed by ARP (Applied Research in Patacriticism) in collaboration with NINES (Networked Interface for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship), Collex allows a user to access resources from nine different online scholarly resources. Using semantic web technologies, Collex facilitates collaborative research and access to a variety of sources, while retaining the unique characteristics of each source. Resources are added on an on-going basis as they are evaluated by the NINES editorial team.
“Users of the web-based NINES aggregation can now, through Collex 1.0:
- perform text searches on finding aids for all 45,000 digital objects in the system;
- search full-text content across participating sites (currently Rossetti, Swinburne, and Poetess);
- browse common metadata fields (dates, genres, names, etc.) across all objects in a non-hierarchical, faceted manner;
- constrain their search and browse operations to generate highly-individualized results;
- create personal accounts on the system to save and share their research work;
publicly tag, privately annotate, and ultimately “collect” digital objects located through Collex or in browsing NINES-affiliated sites; - browse their own and others’ collections in an integrated sidebar interface;
and discover new, related objects of interest through the Collex “more like this” feature”.
Starter Links: Collex | NINES website | ARP Collex Blog | ARP Webpage