Search improvements
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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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Obsolete Welsh County - Clwyd
The search facility only includes the obsolete county of Clwyd. The historical counties of flintshire and denbigh are ignored.
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Mark search results I have already viewed so it is more obvious
Allow a facility for the system to "remember" which pages I have previously looked at. By ticking that page, or some other marking.
48 votesGreat suggestion. If you are signed in, the system does know somewhere what you have already viewed, so in theory this is feasible…..
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Search improvement
Better search selection. When selecting either a Publication place or title then restrict the Publication year to the dates that have been uploaded for the selected publication. Thus you should only be able to search in the appropriate range of a run of papers rather than searching and getting no results and wondering if it is the search term that is not located or if there is no papers in the area.
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Jump to next/previous instance of search term within a page
Provide a next/previous buttons to enable to skip from an occurrence of a search term in a page to the next/previous occurrence of the search term. The move would focus on the search term and size to display just the column involved and a few lines around the search term.
This will be very useful on images where most of the page is part of a single article.
3 votesGood suggestion. We will investigate how hard this will be to do.
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search terms to be within the same article
Option to use search words where all words are only found in the same article and not on the whole page
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Search "Edit Article Text" and "Show Article Text"
Provide a search function in the "Edit Article Text" and in the "Show Article Text" so you can find the text you are interested in. This is especially needed on long articles as it it often difficult to find the text that you require.
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Search within page / edition being viewed
Search within page.
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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 votesWe 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 votesWe 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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Allow restricting search to particular days of the week
Restrict search to days of the week eg Monday so it would return Saturday football results.
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Filter by more than one region
Filter results by more than one region. Events in the Southeast are likely to be in Southeast or London Papers
13 votesWe will look into the feasibility of this – it’s a good suggestion
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3 votes
We are just about to make a further speed improvement to the engine.
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Reward Manual Corrections to OCR-generated flaws
There is little incentive to repair obvious flaws in OCR-generated plaintext other than the satisfaction of having done so. Awarding concessionary access to those willing to contribute such exacting labours would improve the accumulated corpus for everyone and render more accurate the search function -- which depends exclusively upon the plaintext version.
32 votesWe will think about this.
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Go back to same place on results page when an article has been reviewed
when weve viewed an article and return to results page pls can you go back to the last position we were on in the page so we dont have to keep scrolling down all the time esp as some results are very similar
34 votesThis is a good suggestion – we will add it to the Future development list.
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Downloaded PDFs searchable
The OCR - warts and all! - enables pages to be found - but when the PDF is downloaded it is just an image with no underlying OCR layer. Can the OCR not be included in the PDF?
23 votesWe’ll find out how hard this is to do
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A preview for the search results without having to go into the full page
It would be much better if you could hover over an entry after a search and have a small preview pop up showing the context of the match to your search criteria. This would be highly effective in reducing the number of "red herring" matches that you often have to go through.
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Improve Optical Character Recognition
The existing OCR is poor. Many words are garbled, rendering search results meaningless
132 votes
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