Website improvements
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1 vote
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Web Site performance and OCR
Firstly I think you are doing a great thing with this archive; good job!
However my experience of trying to contribute to your project in a small way and correct the plethora of errors which your very basic OCR generates in the articles I am researching has been very frustrating. Reviewing and correcting a few thousand words is taking hours when it should take maybe only an hour if the performance of the website was quicker and if the user interface for editing had been better designed. In Microsoft Word or some similar software I can see all the errors…1 vote -
Gorilla Tag
gorilla tag is a virtual reality (VR) multiplayer game that gained popularity among VR enthusiasts and players. It is a fast-paced and immersive experience that involves players taking on the role of gorillas in a jungle environment. In Gorilla Tag, players use their VR headsets and motion controllers to navigate the virtual jungle, swinging between trees, climbing, and jumping. The goal is to catch and tag other players, simulating the playful behavior of gorillas in their natural habitat. The game emphasizes agility, quick reflexes, and strategic movements to outmaneuver opponents and avoid being tagged.
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How to play X Trench Run
The game's stunning graphics and captivating sound effects transport players to a thrilling sci-fi environment. The controls' ease of use and simplicity allow players to focus on the game's action and strategy.
To begin x trench run, players must select a spaceship from a list of options, each with unique advantages and disadvantages. Following that, they enter the first trench and combat the enemy ships while avoiding obstacles to complete the course.
Players must make quick decisions to avoid obstacles and enemy fire in this tough and fast-paced game. Along the way, players can find power-ups such as shields,…1 vote -
Save a single article
I have been reading for a couple of years that you hope to make it possible to save a single article instead of a whole page but I haven’t seen any progress in providing this, are you actually going to provide this option? it is why I let my subscription lapse, I would rejoin if this was sorted.
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academic citations
adding a citation button to help with citing your amazing newspaper
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Search for a phrase is often ignored
When I search for a phrase, for example "W. Hunter" to get only hits for "W. Hunter" it is very annoying that I get endless hits for just "W." Can the search engine not be taught to ONLY look for "W. Hunter" ?
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Exact searching
Because words like "and", "of" etc. seem to be used as operators, I often can't use them in the way I'd like. For example, I want to search for the EXACT phrase "The Horse and Hounds". At the moment, I can't see how to do it.
I would like to be able to search for an EXACT phrase , e.g. "The Horse and Hounds" without2 votes -
Stop treating one off subscriptions as continuous
Stop treating one off subscriptions as a continuous subscription. It's sharp practice and it's not a good look.
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Pages for all counties
Some coverage of all uk counties in the first instance...still many with no pages at all.
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adoption of corrections
When I edit an article's text, when are those corrections taken into account for a future search? I have been doing corrections for months and none of them have been picked up in subsequent searches.
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A Timeline, simple base line of world/UK event dates occurring at, or near the atricle date
Place the articles in some kind of timeline, a simple baseline graph idea would help I suppose. I don't have a plan but whenever I find an article concerning an ancestor it would help to picture the time he was living in - who was on the throne, world action concerning Britain etc.
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Highlighted articles
I'd like to be able to download and/or print a page that highlights articles of interest as they appear on the screen.
1 voteOpen - Under review · AdminThe British Newspaper Archive (Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive) respondedCan you give us some more detail here? How would we work out which article were of interest to you, or are you just wanting an easier way to save and print individual articles as you come across them?
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rewards for repairing OCR efforts
a reward system for repairing defective OCR results
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Publication issue
Provide the issue number of the publication in the header information.
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Poor Page Quality
Ability to flag scan quality issues with some pages and get them rectified.
22 votesOpen - Under review · AdminThe British Newspaper Archive (Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive) respondedGood idea – we will add this into the list
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Academic Citation
The BNA has become an invaluable tool for researchers. I'd like the ability to download a citation of the records in the common formats MLA, Chicago etc.Your database is likely to contain the required information such as source, date, page number and so on. Is there any chance of such a facility being added?
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Next/previous day
Provide a forward/backward button when viewing a page so that you can skip to the same page in the next/previous day of the same publication
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Improve viewer layout to make it easier to navigate
I prefer the page layout used by Gale News Vault. It makes it much easier to scroll through a news article. The default window in BNA is too small, and changing to full page view makes it very difficult to navigate the page.
80 votesOpen - Planned · AdminThe British Newspaper Archive (Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive) respondedWe’ve now done a thorough review of NewsVault and will be taking some of the better design features into our product roadmap.
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Translate Welsh into English facility.
A translation facility to translate Welsh language newspaper articles etc into English.
George Middlehurst
2 votes
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