NINES is a group of distinguished scholars and humanities computing experts engaged in building a "networked interface for nineteenth-century electronic scholarship." This interface is to be an online research and publishing environment for integrated, peer-reviewed editorial and critical work in nineteenth-century studies, both British and American. NINES aims to address the crisis in humanities publishing and to move the rethinking of literary and cultural studies -- in method as well as theory -- by establishing an institutionalized mechanism for new kinds of digital-based analytic and
interpretive practices