At the third major meeting of the steering committee (October 2005), a federated model for NINES presented in this white paper was approved, and the UVA-based development group worked to complete a pilot implementation of NINES in December 2005.

Now the NINES pilot has grown to include more than 40,000 digital objects, aggregated from major, well-respected online resources in nineteenth-century studies. The steering committee met again in June 2006 to establish practices for peer review and policies concerning the incorporation of proprietary and bibliographic resources.

In Summer 2006, the Mellon Foundation generously extended its funding for two more years' of NINES software development work, and the ARP development group has released an updated version of its Collex software. More content is being added to NINES on almost a weekly basis. Stay tuned for exciting developments!

a networked infrastructure for nineteenth-century electronic scholarship