Search improvements
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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.
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Make available a list of the newspaer codes used in the PDF filenames so downloaded articles can be located more easily.
Having downloaded a large number of files as PDF I find it difficult to find a specific article when I need to refer to it again. I have managed to import the filenames into a spread sheet and covert the date coded in to a long format date but would like a list of newspaper names so I can arrange a lookup on that part of the filename to give me both newspaper and date.
1 voteHello Peter,
A trick for you.
1. open your browser, make sure you signed into the site, paste in the filename of your PDF e.g BL_0000217_18590813_001_0001.pdf
2. remove the “.pdf” from the end and convert the underscores “_” to forward slashes “/” e.g BL/0000217/18590813/001/0001
3.Paste this URL in front of that: http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/
4. Hey presto! you now have the page that you downloaded with title information etc e.g http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000217/18590813/001/0001Hope that helps!
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Focus resources (our subs) on new titles/editions rather than search improvements
While it is commendable that you want to improve the search facility, for those of us sorely missing key titles or editions from the site, it would be better to focus resources there. If the title I want is not covered, it doesn't matter how improved your search facility is! I'd rather that new additions to the site are browse-only (to be made searchable later) if it means getting them online quicker
3 votesHello, the two teams that perform these roles have completely different skillsets and are based in different locations so swapping staff would have no effect on the number of pages added. We are constantly looking at ways of upping the number of pages we publish and should have some healthy jumps in the amount of material published over the coming year.
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I'd like to be able to avoid picking up sports results.
I'm searching for family history, so I search for name and place. I get the cricket and football results. Yes they may be relatives but as they only list surnames there not very useful.
2 votesWe would recommend using the advanced search and adding Football and cricket to the excluded search terms – this should help.
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Put arrows so you can move around the article/page
It doesn't seem possible to move around the page. Perhaps some arrows or a hand to allow you to scroll
would be helpful5 votesThis is already available within the image viewer
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Hello Hugh,
You cans et exact date ranges using the advanced search option. Hope this helps!
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3 votes
Hello Hugh,
A workaround for you: before switching to full page view, simply click the “Hide search terms” button to the left before going into full-screen mode. Unfortunately, if we included all the tools in the normal mode in the full screen viewer, you would not have much screen left, but we will revisit the design at some point.
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In Trove the Australian newspaper website, identified people are allowed to edit the text, and correct the inevitable errors of OCR.
Allowing editing has improved the text massively to the benefit of all
6 votesYou can do this from within the viewer: just choose the “edit” button from the viewer page
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