General Content Sources

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Libraries and Collections

Library In OCLC? NINES Contact Director/Lead Contact Technical Contact Last Communication Status Next Target Date Whose Court?
Houghton Library ... John B, Steve Jones, et al or Dana Wheeles Leslie Morris, Rare Books and MSS; Peter Accardo, HLB Susan Pizinski (sp?) Peter called Beth, 6 August Three editors to coordinate? [JB] (not sure what John's note means: Peter said he'd forward my letter of 26 June to Susan P., who is the proper person for getting this rolling. He'd like to stay copied into communications and will be trying to set up an on-site demo with Andy. -- BPN) DMW emailed Dale Fletcher and Bill Stoneman 6/04/08 ... theirs
Huntington MARC Records ... Dino Felluga, Dana Wheeles Laura Stalker ... May 2008 DW wrote to Laura Stalker answering her questions about contributing to NINES uncertain May 2008 theirs
Humanities Research Center (HRC), Austin ... Jerry McGann Patricia Galloway,School of Information,University of Texas at Austin; and Tom Staley,

the director of HRC (tfs@mail.utexas.edu)

JaNice Woolaver, Joan Sibley MARC records received and currently working through URL generation. Not all HRC finding aids are online yet. DW had phone conv'n with Joan Sibley 6/10/08 - process on hold until they get all docs into XML UPDATE: transfer still underway as of Sept. 2008 Nov. 2008 (DW will call to check in) theirs
Newberry Library ... Laura M, John B, Steve Jones, Andy Stauffer ... ... ... These four to coordinate? [JB] ... ours
Boston Athenaeum Library ... Jerry McGann Richard Wendorf, Director ... Jerry had an email exchange with Bob Kruse, th NEH head of tech services at the Boston Athenaeum Jerry wrote to Richard last week and heard from him on 5 July -- Wendorf's tech

person is to get in touch with us.

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Library In OCLC? NINES Contact Director/Lead Contact Technical Contact Last Communication Status Next Target Date Whose Court?

Museums and Galleries

Museums OAI available? NINES Contact Curator/Lead Contact Technical Contact Last Communication Status Next Target Date Whose Court?
Huntington no If MARC records can be integrated, the next step is getting the museum Catherine Hess (European Art) -- no contact yet - still working with Laura Stalker in Library uncertain on hold
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Museums OAI available? NINES Contact Curator/Lead Contact Technical Contact Last Communication Status Next Target Date Whose Court?

Publishers

Publisher NINES Contact Director/Lead Contact Technical Contact Last Communication Status Next Target Date Whose Court?
Cambridge UP Jerome McGann Linda Bree, Literature Editor; and John Maynard, editor of VLC (in the CUP journals group) Elizabeth Thompson, Publishing Assistant Jerry contacted Bree two months ago and renewed contact on 22 June. She wrote on 24 June to say that she will put him in touch with

the journals people and will raise the topic of liaison with editors who have authority over different 19th c book series. Jerry wrote again on 2 July

On 2 July Jerry heard from Ella Colvin, Editor-in-Chief, Humanities and Social Science Journals, saying they were in an 18 month job of digitizing their journals and would take the subject of a liaison up again. 15 sept 07: john maynard wrote jerry to say that CUP is still not ready to commit. he's pretty frustrated, having tried hard to get the liaison working. [jjm]. ... theirs; now waiting to hear from Maynard and Colvin
Ohio State UP Laura Mandell Malcolm Litchfield Malcolm Litchfield and Kathy Edwards 17 Sept. they are in. October 15 ours: Laura sends php
Oxford UP Jerry McGann Andrew Paulson, Assoc. Research Editor (NY office): 212-743-8276 17 Sept, Jerry Jerry had an email from Paulson and replied on the 17th. theirs
U Virginia P Jerome McGann Penelope J. Kaiserlian David Sewell 16 July, Beth to David and Ken re admin app and review of Typee They've brought in the Victorian Literature and Culture Series, the C. Rossetti letters, and the Matthew Arnold letters, and are now working on Typee. (See Americanist chart on the other page for details on Typee.)

15 sept 07: jerry went to the press to talk about john bryant's melville project. practical implementation will wait upon john developing an initial model for the project and plan for development [jjm]

... theirs
Broadview Jerome McGann Julia Gaunce, Literature Editor; and Don LePan (former editor in chief) Jerry contacted Don and Julia on 15 May and Julia said she would be checking with his colleagues. On 12 August Jerry answered Marjorie Mather's query about what technical moves they would have to make to liaise with NINES. 4 sept 07: jerry called marjorie mather on the phone and had a long talk with her about preparing broadview materials for nines. the outlook is dim, their data is very poor. ... theirs; waiting to hear from marjorie mather
Alexander Street Press Dana Wheeles, Laura Mandell Andrea Eastman-Mullins Dana in conversation with Andrea, and arranging for phone chat in late September. DW emailed 9/1/2008 ... theirs; waiting to schedule phone call
Literature Compass/Blackwell Jerome McGann Kivmars Bowling, Literature Editor Jerry contacted Kivmars on 3 July. 7 oct: kivmars wrote to say that they are working on tech issues for delivering content to third parties, that they want to associate with nines, and that they'll be ready in 2008. [jm]. ... theirs; now waiting to hear from Kivmars
Publisher NINES Contact Director/Lead Contact Technical Contact Last Communication Status Next Target Date Whose Court?

Major Providers

Provider NINES Contact Director/Lead Contact Technical Contact Last Communication Status Next Target Date Whose Court?
JSTOR Heidi MacGregor Jerome McGann and Dana Wheeles Michael Krot April 5-7 2008, DW notified Michael Krot that 6 journals are now in Production. Also asked about some discrepancies between the two batches of RDF, and using a JSTOR thumbnail. (see Journals and Providers) As of April, 2008 6 journals from JSTOR have been indexed into NINES. One other, Studies in English Literature, remains in Staging until all the necessary files are in order. needed theirs
Project MUSE Mary Rose Muccie, Director Jerome McGann Wendy Queen Fall 2007 DW notified Wendy Queen that Project MUSE was in NINES (see Journals and Providers ) Fall 2007, 16 Project MUSE journals indexed into NINES needed ours (done)
ProQuest Jerome McGann and Dana Wheeles Jo-Anne Hogan Duncan Campbell Thanks to Laura, our conversations with ProQuest resumed last week (5/8/2008) and they are compiling RDF for their Early American Fiction and Nineteenth-Century Fiction holdings Dana is in contact with Duncan about RDF generation Summer 2008 ...
Liverpool UP Jerome McGann Geoffrey Bond, key person on the editorial board of The Byron Journal. The other person is Anthony Cond, commissioning editor at Liverpool UP ... I (Jerry) met with several Byron Society people and Liverpool UP people in Venice and began moves to get a liaison with the press and in particular with the Nottingham Byron Lecture series and The Byron Journal I shall write to them in a couple of weeks if I don't hear anything further. ... ...
OCLC Jerome McGann and Bethany Nowviskie (assisted by Martha Sites) Lorcan Dempsey? ... Late June: Martha has promised to write to initiate discussion. Beth will be exploring WorldCat Local. ... ...
JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee, London) Alastair Dunning, Digitisation Programme Manager Jerome McGann Dunning contacted Jerry on 14 August to inquire about a liaison with NINES. Jerry responded positively to the suggestion of a meeting at UVA in January and then perhaps a visit (by Laura? she volunteered) to London in February. The plan would be to have JISC set standards for their 19th c projects so that their data would be prepared for NINES integration. Waiting to hear response to Jerry's Aug 21 message needed theirs
Provider NINES Contact Director/Lead Contact Technical Contact Last Communication Status Next Target Date Whose Court?