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  1. Web Site performance and OCR

    Firstly I think you are doing a great thing with this archive; good job!
    However my experience of trying to contribute to your project in a small way and correct the plethora of errors which your very basic OCR generates in the articles I am researching has been very frustrating. Reviewing and correcting a few thousand words is taking hours when it should take maybe only an hour if the performance of the website was quicker and if the user interface for editing had been better designed. In Microsoft Word or some similar software I can see all the errors…

    4 votes
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  2. Voting for a publication instructions

    My colleagues and myself have been struggling to vote for a newspaper to be recommended for digitisation. We are not computer illiterates but have found the voting process far from intuitive, particularly as you have to create a second password in order to vote. Do you have some clear instructions we could share with others who have been put off attempting to vote?

    3 votes
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  3. Please put Newspaper title in downloaded filename

    Currnently PDF files downloaded are in the form of BL0000564193810312510011.pdf - can the first ID be replaced with the newspaper title, please? e.g. BLDundeeCourier19381031251_0011.pdf - there is currently no way to link an image to a newspaper without manually viewing the image.

    3 votes
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  4. Facility to download pages as JPEG as well asPDF

    Please display on Edge to full screen as on Chrome

    3 votes
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  5. Publication issue

    Provide the issue number of the publication in the header information.

    2 votes
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  6. Ability to Clip Articles

    Ability to clip articles as opposed to downloading the page in its entirety without any boundaries for the information you're actually interested in preserving. Think Newspapers.com. For the price of admission the feature is sorely needed.

    2 votes
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  7. 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" without

    2 votes
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  8. Translate Welsh into English facility.

    A translation facility to translate Welsh language newspaper articles etc into English.

    George Middlehurst

    2 votes
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  9. Previous/next result

    Add ‘Previous result’ and ‘Next result’ links to each page shown from a list of search results, so that it is not necessary to return to the results list before viewing the next result. The Times Digital Archive already has this facility.

    2 votes
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  10. Correcting transcription errors

    If I copy out an article, I like to correct transcription errors so others benefit from the corrected version,

    But your system if very frustrating, as fast as I can correct errors then more appear.

    I usually just copy to my PC and edit there so no one else benefits from my work.

    Comments are limited to 500 characters so I cannot even paste the corrected version there.

    JMB

    2 votes
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  11. Option to turn off unwanted frills.

    Please provide an option to turn off saved searches and all other pop-ups so that the search is simple like it used to be.

    1 vote
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  12. 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 vote
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    Open - Under review  ·  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?

  13. Requesting a rescan of images

    How do we re request to have a page rescanned when half is missing, but is complete on next page?

    Edinburgh Evening News - Monday 01 April 1912, Page 3 has the far column halved - but on page 4 the column on the edge is complete.

    This is a scanning issue and could be corrected by a rescan

    1 vote
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  14. Pages for all counties

    Some coverage of all uk counties in the first instance...still many with no pages at all.

    1 vote
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