Search improvements
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8 votes
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Can a secondary search facility be added to allow searches only within the initial group?
Can a secondary search facility be added to allow searches only within the initial group of records? Words which are almost certain to be in the article would determine the first group. Then, perhaps after filtering, secondary searches of that group can be made for possible words or phrases.
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When doing a serach, show next to each article found whether it has already been viewed, like FindMy Past does, so any newly added entried c
When doing a search, show next to each article found whether it has already been viewed, like FindMyPast does, so any newly added articles can easily be identified.
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Exact search
Exact search needs to actually be exact and not include variants of the searched words. For example when I search for "Downing" I don't want results for "down" and "downs" too. Case sensitivity would also be useful.
62 votes -
4 votes
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A search option for just Day & Month - Year is Wildcard
I do Radio Programmes, and I wish to search for events that have happened on a day and a month.. You cannot search for this at the moment, which is very frustrating..
13 votes -
Searching photo captions only
Looking for a photo of my grandfather and fellow soldier loading ammo into a pram. It would be useful to be able to search photo captions only as I've no idea if there was an article attached to the image. I just remember him telling me about the photo being in a British newspaper 1945.
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Wildcard Search
We need a better search facility - the current transcriptions are often horrifically off the mark. It might even help to have a wildcard option to try and incorporate all the random letters supposedly appearing in the middle of names.
30 votes -
Allow "Next Page" and/or "Page Number Selection" to Full Screen
Unless I am missing something the only way to go to the "Next Page" in Full Screen View is to come out of that view
10 votes -
Get alerts - Individual paper updates
I would like the ability to 'subscribe' to select papers. What this means is that I will be notified by email or message if my selected papers are updated with new issues, and notified which editions have been added. It would save logging in daily to see if the papers we are interested in have been updated and then trying to work out which issues.
14 votes -
Ability to delete a summary from Search History.
Often a search proves fruitless or (as often in my case) I misspell a key word, yet the search remains in Search History. These searches need to be deleted before my Search History becomes unmanageable.
18 votes -
Improve Optical Character Recognition
The existing OCR is poor. Many words are garbled, rendering search results meaningless
132 votes -
BETTER SEARCHES (accuracy, control & operators)
Have an advanced search like Google Advanced. When searching for 'all these words' that should mean that all of those words are in the article not just one of them.
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Better Search Tool
A better search tool is required. Today I have done an advances search for 1 street in a town and received almost 77,000 matches. There is no way all of these relate to the street and town I am searching for, the most relevant match relates to a birth in Cornwall whereas I'm looking for information on a street in a town in Scotland and it is impossible to wade through all of these matches.
8 votes -
We should be able to search only the newpapers that have been added most recently
It would be great if there was a way to search only the newspapers that have been added in the last 30 / 60 / 90 days so it's easier to find new stories.
132 votesOpen - Planned ·
AdminThe British Newspaper Archive
(Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive)
responded
We have been making some background changes to the database to support this and will shortly start developing a solution.
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Wildcards
I would love to be able to use wildcards. It's so difficult to guess what the mangled version of a name would be.
41 votesOpen - Under review ·AdminThe British Newspaper Archive
(Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive)
responded
We are looking into different ways that we could improve wildcarding at the moment
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Go back to same place on results page when an article has been reviewed
when weve viewed an article and return to results page pls can you go back to the last position we were on in the page so we dont have to keep scrolling down all the time esp as some results are very similar
34 votesPending - For future development ·AdminThe British Newspaper Archive
(Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive)
responded
This is a good suggestion – we will add it to the Future development list.
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search terms to be within the same article
Option to use search words where all words are only found in the same article and not on the whole page
19 votes -
A preview for the search results without having to go into the full page
It would be much better if you could hover over an entry after a search and have a small preview pop up showing the context of the match to your search criteria. This would be highly effective in reducing the number of "red herring" matches that you often have to go through.
57 votes -
Some way of searching for two words NEAR each other rather than just both appearing or a phrase
Some search systems have commands like NEAR4 to find two words with four words of each other.
All too often a search for two words finds then in completely different parts of the page.
47 votesPending - For future development ·AdminThe British Newspaper Archive
(Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive)
responded
We have established a way of doing this through our search technology. Next steps are to start designing a user interface.
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