NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship) is a scholarly organization devoted to forging links between the material archive of the nineteenth century and the digital research environment of the twenty-first. Our activities are driven by three primary goals:
The Back Bay was a planned district, the result of a massive 19th c. landfill operation of over 800 acres. It was also part of a comprehensive urban design and coordinated set of infrastructures: sewers, streets, water supply, flood control, planting, lighting, lot layouts, and sculpture. As it has evolved, the Back Bay has continued to play important roles in the design of the city of Boston - roles that have continually evolved and whose expression has been diverse, layered, complex, and exciting. This portion of the project chronicles that change.
The Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project consists of an electronic collection of primary source materials relating to the Salem witch trials of 1692 and a new transcription of the court records.
Kerameikos.org is a collaborative project dedicated to defining the intellectual concepts of pottery following the tenets of linked open data and the formulation of an ontology for representing and sharing ceramic data across disparate data systems. While the project is focused primarily on the definition of concepts within Greek black- and red-figure pottery, Kerameikos.org is extensible toward the definition of concepts in other fields of pottery studies.
The 3D Greek Vase Scanning and Printing Project (3DGV) brings together faculty, staff, and students at the University of Virginia to create scale replicas of the Greek vases in the collection of the Fralin Museum of Art using rapid prototyping technologies.
At least 50,000 people read Uncle Tom's Cabin in its first published form, the 41 weekly installments that appeared between 5 June 1851 and 1 April 1852 in the National Era, a Washington, D.C., anti-slavery paper with a national readership. This means that Stowe's story would have been one of the most widely read 19th century American novels even if it had never been published in book form. The project is founded on three premises.
"Monuments and Dust" names the work of an international group of scholars now assembling a complex visual, textual, and statistical representation of Victorian London--the largest city of the nineteenth-century world and its first urban metropolis. At the University of Virginia in the United States and at University College, London in the United Kingdom, the research group has two well-supported centers that serve as foci for the firmly bi-national initiative. At the time of this writing more than fifty researchers from the two countries have committed themselves to the project.
This document presents the results of an investigation into the reconstruction of a large market building on the Pompeii Forum following and earthquake in 62 AD, seventeen years prior to the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius that buried the city. The work is part of the Pompeii Forum Project, a multi-disciplinary study of the development of the Forum as the civic center of Pompeii. The study is approached from the perspective of a structural engineer, applying engineering principles to interpret the currently visible areas of damage and repair, plus information available from historic records.
The Salisbury Project is the creation of Professor Marion Roberts, McIntire Department of Art, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. The main feature of the Project is an image archive of over 2,000 color photographs of the exterior and interior of Salisbury Cathedral, as well as of select buildings and locations in and around the town of Salisbury. The archive can be accessed directly from the menu at the right of this page, or through the five principal areas of the site reached via the menu across the top of the page.
