"PAPERS PAST" Update Part IV

[PapersPast]

Spades - no problem. We've gotten similar feedback from people around the title/date text and we've already discussed changing the approach to that, so it's very much on our radar.

[newbe_nz]

Thank you PP for all the updates you give us.

Keep up the great work you all do

Newbe

[PapersPast]

Hi Everyone,

Can I ask those who have used the Beta site what they find an improvement over the current site.

For me, I like the page presentation and the selection parameters section, especially facility to narrow the date range by using the slider bar.

I love the fuzzy thinking where the site then automatically selects publications searchable within the range and excludes others.

I do prefer the current site which gives you the newspaper title and date (reading date, month, year) page number at the top of the page, excellent for cut and paste of citations. The Beta site is harder and seems to be 'month, date, year'.

For the sake of established use and continuity could that be changed, please, Papers Past?

Spades

Hi Spades - quick question; whereabouts exactly are you seeing the month/date/year date structures popping up?

[spades]

Hi,

Apology offered! The order is unchanged . Wonder where I got that from.

But to clarify my other comments, on the current format page I see the following in a green bar taken from a sample page:

WOMEN'S CORNER
Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17668, 22 January 1923, Page 2

This text is not formatted for a field; hence easy to copy and paste as a citation.

On the Beta version of the same page I see this text, formatted into fields:

Newspapers      Press      22 January 1923      Page 2      This article

The title of the article, WOMEN'S CORNER appears to the right of the article image.

Spades

[PapersPast]

No worries - it looks like on the browse by title page, the date slider has a text field you can type dates in, and it uses a YYYY-MM-DD format - could that be the thing you were thinking of?

In terms of that nicely copyable text, I've added your comments into our feedback dashboard - as I mentioned, you're not the only person to bring this up!

[Charlie Bucket]

Hello PP

What proportion of the newspapers is on the beta site?

Charlie

[PapersPast]

Hi Charlie - nearly all of them except for the stuff we added a couple of weeks ago (on the previous page of this thread). We're still in the process of developing a content release process for the new site, so that stuff will be appearing on the new site in the not-too-distant future.

We've taken some titles from the old site which were technically periodicals (like Kai Tiaki) and placed them in the magazines and journals section of the new site, which is why the overall list of newspaper titles looks smaller than in the old site.

[spades]

Many thanks to Minniehaha who found an article in the Grey River Argus reporting the death in 1906 of a man I've been hunting for over a decade.

And thanks again to the Papers Past team for such providing such a useful resource.

Spades

[kiwihalfpint]

The happy dance was it Spades?    Well done Minnie, perhaps we should get you to find things for us, when we can't


Cheers
KHP