Search improvements
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Sort by length
I'd like to be able to sort not only by relevance or date but by length. When I am looking for the press coverage of an event, I am interested to find not those three-liners but the most comprehensive article I can get.
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Missing Pages in Bristol Mercury of October of 1835
Something is quite wrong with the scans of the pages of the Bristol Mercury of October of 1835. Many are missing, and what is displayed does not necessarily match the page. How can one side of a page be digitized, and its reverse side is simply missing? I could understand if a sheet was missing, that both if its sides may be lost; but, one side digitized, and the other side isn't there? October 3, (3 pages); October 10, (2 pages, and page 1, shown, doesn't match the content for page 1); October 7, (2 pages); October 24, (3 pages);…
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Historic Counties
Search engine should be based on the historic counties using the post 1974 counties is confusing.
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Sometimes the template applied to a page does not match the underlying text
When I search for Whipp 1 Sept 1910 Portsmouth Evening News, only about half the article appears to be digitised so show article text is not helpful in retrieving OCR text. Portsmouth EN seems to be more problematic than most
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I am looking for a relatives death in 1962, but all I can do is remove the years from 1950-1999.
Why can't I get into the 1960's archives. All it will allow me to do is remove the years from 1950-1999.
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The new results page is very confusing and not as straight-forward to use as the version I was using up until
The new results page is not as straightforward to use as the edition pre Jan 2016. The earlier version was much less difficult to use.
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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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Author search
Hello,
It would be very useful for readers to be able to search for articles written by a specific author. He is often indicated by a em dash in front of the name.
Simply searching for the name of the author is not always a solution. I tried searching for articles written by Winston Churchill and had to seek the ones that are not just reporting about him.Best regards,
Andrei Vasiliu, Târgoviște, Romania2 votes -
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.
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Search on file name
After downloading the file is assigned a file number. It would be helpful to search using this number in order to get back to page on the site.
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Stop automatically changing and to AND
The word 'and' forms part of many phrases and names. If I am searching for the Crown and Thistle PH I am only interested in the phrase, not every page that contains both words.
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Bookmarks are placed in Folders, but you can't go to a particular folder and search
You can place bookmarks into 'Folders', but you can't actually search these folders individually. A page showcasing your various folders would be handy.
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Weather
I'd love to be able to filter results by weather reports. I'm often trying to find what the weather might have been like on a specific day in a specific place - i.e was March 3rd 1922 war, cloudy, rainy, etc - so maybe results could be filtered to show just those columns and/or pages which have that weather info. It really helps give an extra touch of authenticity touch when writing up historic events. If it's possible to filter by advertisements, then why not weather?
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Search facility
At the moment search facility is only available for publication place or county (or title). By selecting one place or county in a area you are limiting your search and by not selecting a place you could end up with numerous entries to wade through. Would it be possible to add a facility for country ie Scotland, England etc. Sometimes the closest newspaper to the issue did not provide the best article.
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Search by title of article
Enable the ability to search for a word in the article title. Most other newspaper archives have this really useful facility
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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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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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semantic search which recognises surnames, places etc
The use of "" does not filter to surname only i.e. Brakes search comes up with all references to brakes.
11 votesOpen - Being developed ·AdminThe British Newspaper Archive
(Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive)
responded
We have had our first presentation back from one of the universities and we are prototyping an early version of this. However, this will be a long project!
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