Website improvements
22 results found
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Improve viewer layout to make it easier to navigate
I prefer the page layout used by Gale News Vault. It makes it much easier to scroll through a news article. The default window in BNA is too small, and changing to full page view makes it very difficult to navigate the page.
80 votesOpen - Planned ·
AdminThe British Newspaper Archive
(Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive)
responded
We’ve now done a thorough review of NewsVault and will be taking some of the better design features into our product roadmap.
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Future Publication Schedule
How about posting a schedule of proposed releases of newspapers. I check the site most days for the areas of the country I am most interested in but a prior announcement of forthcoming newspapers would be useful.
72 votesOpen - Planned ·AdminThe British Newspaper Archive
(Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive)
responded
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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Academic Citation
The BNA has become an invaluable tool for researchers. I'd like the ability to download a citation of the records in the common formats MLA, Chicago etc.Your database is likely to contain the required information such as source, date, page number and so on. Is there any chance of such a facility being added?
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completed runs & dates / better visibility of what is online
Let us know in an easily found format the entire run of a paper or journal held in the National Archive and when it has all been copied and put on line.
59 votesOpen - Planned ·AdminThe British Newspaper Archive
(Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive)
responded
We have developed a prototype data feed from the digitisation workflow software which will provide much more granular data in future. Now we are looking at ways too feed this data through to the website and make it presentable
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Poor Page Quality
Ability to flag scan quality issues with some pages and get them rectified.
22 votesOpen - Under review ·AdminThe British Newspaper Archive
(Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive)
responded
Good idea – we will add this into the list
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Save a single article
I have been reading for a couple of years that you hope to make it possible to save a single article instead of a whole page but I haven’t seen any progress in providing this, are you actually going to provide this option? it is why I let my subscription lapse, I would rejoin if this was sorted.
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academic citations
adding a citation button to help with citing your amazing newspaper
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Next/previous day
Provide a forward/backward button when viewing a page so that you can skip to the same page in the next/previous day of the same publication
11 votes -
rewards for repairing OCR efforts
a reward system for repairing defective OCR results
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Stop treating one off subscriptions as continuous
Stop treating one off subscriptions as a continuous subscription. It's sharp practice and it's not a good look.
7 votes -
adoption of corrections
When I edit an article's text, when are those corrections taken into account for a future search? I have been doing corrections for months and none of them have been picked up in subsequent searches.
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A Timeline, simple base line of world/UK event dates occurring at, or near the atricle date
Place the articles in some kind of timeline, a simple baseline graph idea would help I suppose. I don't have a plan but whenever I find an article concerning an ancestor it would help to picture the time he was living in - who was on the throne, world action concerning Britain etc.
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Search for a phrase is often ignored
When I search for a phrase, for example "W. Hunter" to get only hits for "W. Hunter" it is very annoying that I get endless hits for just "W." Can the search engine not be taught to ONLY look for "W. Hunter" ?
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Publication issue
Provide the issue number of the publication in the header information.
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Exact searching
Because words like "and", "of" etc. seem to be used as operators, I often can't use them in the way I'd like. For example, I want to search for the EXACT phrase "The Horse and Hounds". At the moment, I can't see how to do it.
I would like to be able to search for an EXACT phrase , e.g. "The Horse and Hounds" without2 votes -
Translate Welsh into English facility.
A translation facility to translate Welsh language newspaper articles etc into English.
George Middlehurst
2 votes -
Gorilla Tag
gorilla tag is a virtual reality (VR) multiplayer game that gained popularity among VR enthusiasts and players. It is a fast-paced and immersive experience that involves players taking on the role of gorillas in a jungle environment. In Gorilla Tag, players use their VR headsets and motion controllers to navigate the virtual jungle, swinging between trees, climbing, and jumping. The goal is to catch and tag other players, simulating the playful behavior of gorillas in their natural habitat. The game emphasizes agility, quick reflexes, and strategic movements to outmaneuver opponents and avoid being tagged.
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Pages for all counties
Some coverage of all uk counties in the first instance...still many with no pages at all.
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Highlighted articles
I'd like to be able to download and/or print a page that highlights articles of interest as they appear on the screen.
1 voteOpen - Under review ·AdminThe British Newspaper Archive
(Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive)
responded
Can you give us some more detail here? How would we work out which article were of interest to you, or are you just wanting an easier way to save and print individual articles as you come across them?
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How to play X Trench Run
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