Website improvements
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Highlights
Include a highlight function for downloads.
1 voteOpen - Under review ·AdminThe British Newspaper Archive (Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive) responded
Can you give us more information on this? At what point would you highlight something? Would you be wanting to highlight words, paragraphs or individual articles within a page?
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The Gloucester Citizen File Needs Correction
Unfortunately the Gloucester Citizen archive contains content errors. The 1896 editions are for a weekly paper based in the eastern counties while 1913-19 contains the weekly London finance sector paper of the same name.
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'My Research' list too long to access
I have all my family names as separate folders, but now the list is too long to access - any ideas on how I can get to the end of the list to revisit items I have saved?
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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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rewards for repairing OCR efforts
a reward system for repairing defective OCR results
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Too narrow digitised text box when editing.
I'm presently editing text and find the digitised text box on the left a little too narrow. Yo have to scroll across to see the full line. Otherwise excellent.
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2 votesOpen - Under review ·
AdminThe British Newspaper Archive (Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive) responded
Could you give us a little more detail here Nigel? What were the specific problems you were having?
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Publication issue
Provide the issue number of the publication in the header information.
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Poor Page Quality
Ability to flag scan quality issues with some pages and get them rectified.
12 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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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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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
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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.
14 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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Daily indication of latest additions
It would be useful to show every day which years have been added or expanded the previous night, perhaps simply by showing the relevant year date in bold.
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Make sure uploaded papers don't disappear
I notice that previous feedback refers to the falling number of newspapers available during the WWI period. I have had a similar problem today, in that one previously accessed newspaper (London Daily News, 22.08.1891) appears to have completely vanished from your site. I accessed it on the 24th February this year, but because the quality of the downloaded PDF was not great (another minor gripe), I wanted to check the original, to no avail.
Can you clarify whether or not vanishing newspapers are a common problem? Is it just your database being temperamental, or are certain uploads only temporary? Thanks…
11 votesOpen - Being developed ·AdminThe British Newspaper Archive (Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive) responded
We are now working on a process to add back in the newspapers we had to remove temporarily for copyright reasons – expect some good news soon!
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What is happening to the WW1 Newspaper count?
Hi, As an avid researcher I keep a close count of WW1 newspaper availability. These numbers inexplicably seem to be going down on a daily basis - what is going on as I can find no explanation. Thankyou
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Translate Welsh into English facility.
A translation facility to translate Welsh language newspaper articles etc into English.
George Middlehurst
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paste whole articles corrected text / wider editing box
Being able to cut and paste a whole corrected article in one go - not line by line. AND do check out ideas from NZ papers past Love your site THANKS!!!!
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Freebies
From time to time Ancestry FMP do give 'Free Access' for a short time. I would like to see this happen with this site...... 'Australian Trove Newspapers' are totally FREE! 1803 - 1954 where i live and is disappointing not in UK.
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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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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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