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jerome mcgann

Dr. Jerome McGann is John Stewart Bryan University Professor at the University of Virginia.

bethany nowviskie

Dr. Bethany Nowviskie is Director of Digital Research and Scholarship at the University of Virginia Library. She conceived and designed the Collex software that powers NINES.

erik hatcher

Erik Hatcher brings a content-management mindset to the Collex team, as well as expertise in web application development and search engine technologies. He co-authored two books, Java Development with Ant and Lucene in Action, and has written several technology articles.

dana wheeles

Imaging and XSLT programmer Dana Wheeles is a doctoral candidate in nineteenth-century art history at the University of Virginia.


Assisted by independent developers:

nick laiacona

Nick Laiacona of Performant Software Solutions comes to this work from the computer game industry. At Kesmai Corporation he produced, designed and programmed massively multiplayer online games. Laiacona is the principal developer of Juxta and Ivanhoe.

jamie orchard-hays

Jamie Orchard-Hays of Dang Development has built Web applications since the mid-nineties. He delivers presentations about Ruby on Rails in Charlottesville and is very active in the local Ruby community.


Past contributors include:

duane gran

Duane Gran was a project manager at ARP. He advised developers on software design and formalized requirements for new software.

doug reside

Dr. Doug Reside helped in the design of administrative software for NINES as assistant director of MITH at the University of Maryland.

carl stahmer

Dr. Carl Stahmer helped in the design of administrative software for NINES as a research associate with MITH at the University of Maryland.