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Cambrian News and North Wales Chronicle 20th C issues would be very useful
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Cambrian News from 1913 onwards. North Wales Chronicle from 1901, North Wales Times from 1911 would fill in a huge gap and be so helpful
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Under review for five years and planned for nearly five - and all that has been done, so far as I can tell, is two years, 1910 and 1912, of the Cambrian News, and 1910 duplicated Welsh Newspapers Online so didn't really help much.
You really need to get a grip on this.An error occurred while saving the comment Peter Johnson
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The Welsh Newspapers Online site (now at https://newspapers.library.wales/) while useful, has spent all the funds allocated to it and still leaves lots of gaps in 20th century coverage.
(Yes, I realise that I'm responding to a comment more than four years old.)An error occurred while saving the comment Peter Johnson
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I have been an annual subscriber since the website started, with only 8-9 million pages. During that time, and the addition of more than 20 million pages, there has been almost no increase in the number of Welsh newspapers added or to the number of pages of existing newspapers.
Of the 44 Welsh newspapers currently available, only 10 of them have post-1900 pages and only one of them has pages after 1911. I said before, about three years ago, that anyone using this site would think that very little had happened in Wales after 1900, especially in the north.
If the objective is to digitise 40 million pages, as stated, and you have reached 30 million, isn't it time to add some more Welsh papers? Or are you going to leave them until the last 500,000?
In contrast, there are already well over 100 Irish newspapers - I gave up counting when I got to 100 and wasn't half way through the list - and more are added every week.
Your regional coverage should be spread more equally.An error occurred while saving the comment Peter Johnson
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Anyone using this site would think that nothing happened in Wales after 1901. And don't say that Welsh Newspaper Online (National Library of Wales) fills the gap, because it doesn't, and it hasn't been updated for more than nine months.
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It's well past time that the OCR engine was replaced with one fit for the 21st Century.
The present one omits thousands, if not millions, of random words for no obvious reason, and not because the image is flawed, and often ignores the column boundaries. On many pages the OCR result is missing completely.
A modern fit-for-purpose OCR engine would make a massive improvement.Peter Johnson
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See https://newspapers.library.wales/
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More than two years since I raised this last. In some areas you'd think that nothing happened after 1900.
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As title. I have a number of searches were the data ends at 1900 because other titles added don't cover the areas included in the 19th century scheme.
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34 votesPending - For future development ·
AdminThe British Newspaper Archive
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This is a good suggestion – we will add it to the Future development list.
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72 votesOpen - Planned ·AdminThe British Newspaper Archive
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We have redeveloped the digitsation workflow software so that it can provide more granular detail on titles. Now we are investigating ways to send the data from the workflow to the website and make it presentable.
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22 votesPeter Johnson
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I have commented before about the gaps in the coverage of North Wales titles, particularly between 1900 and 1912 and post 1920, which has been ignored despite some of the titles existing in the British Library collection and have been microfilmed. The need doesn't decline because you ignore it. It won't go away.