Website improvements
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More Taster weekends free or reduced rates
More offers - free weekend specials! Wet our appetites!
2 votesClosed - Now live · AdminThe British Newspaper Archive (Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive) respondedHello there,
Although we don’t have any free weekends planned, you should check our Faceboook page to see details of latest offers, which are relatively frequent!
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Bad Transcriptions
We need the option for people to help transcribe pages. I often have to go through an entire year's worth of papers by hand to find something I know is there but does noy appear on the search due to being heavily mis-transcribed.
5 votesClosed - Now live · AdminThe British Newspaper Archive (Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive) respondedHello there,
You can correct the OCR text from within the image viewer. We plan to make this feature more obvious in a future version of the site so more people can find it easily.
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Date these comments so we can see how long suggestions have been under review
Date these comments so we can see how long suggestions have been under review, proposed, in progress, or ignored.
3 votesClosed - Now live · AdminThe British Newspaper Archive (Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive) respondedHello there,
This is already live – if you go into any idea, all the actions are datestamped so you can see this information.
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What should we add next?
How about posting a list of potential titles or dates that have not yet been scanned and asking people to nominate them in the order that they'd like to see you put them online
0 votesClosed - Now live · AdminThe British Newspaper Archive (Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive) respondedHi,
We already have something very similar – a forum where you can propose titles for digitisation and vote up titles that others have proposed.
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