Collex is an open-source collections- and exhibits-builder designed to aid humanities scholars working in digital collections or within federated research environments like NINES. Collex operates under the assumption that the best paths through a complex digital resource are those forged by use and interpretation.
A Collex approach works to assist scholars in recording, sharing, and building on the interpretive purposes to which they put their online teaching and research environments. Collex leverages current developments in folksonomy and semantic-web technology to perform data mining operations and enhance knowledge discovery.
This leads scholars and students to see connections among digital objects, based on the contexts into which those objects have been placed (implicitly or explicitly) by past scholarly activity in the system.
users of collex in nines can:
- collect, tag, analyze, and annotate trusted objects (digital texts and images vetted for scholarly integrity);
- without any special technical training, produce interlinked online exhibits using a set of professional design templates;
- share collections and exhibits with students and colleagues, in a variety of output formats for fresh critical perspectives.
A detailed description of Collex is available here.
Read outside reviews of Collex and NINES by the Transliteracies Project and by l'Observatoire Critique.
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