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Note re image and metadata quality:
LANT has been digitising its photograph
collection for almost 20 years. In this time the technology and standards
for digitisation and metadata have improved. Images on Territory Stories
are the highest resolution produced at the time of digitisation.
You can request higher resolution images either by clicking on the "Request
High Res Image" in the download box or through our
Copying Service.
You can provide information to enhance our metadata records by clicking on
the email icon on the item detail page.
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Additional Features:
- Sticky filters: Filters now remain selected for the entire session unless cleared. The filters can be cleared one at a time by clicking on the X next to the name of the filter. All filters can be reset by clicking on the Reset all filters button.
- Custom dates are retained until cleared or reset.
- Minor fixes to displays.
- Clicking on the X in the search bar resets the search results not just the search text.
Planned Features for Future Releases:
- Improved date searching.
- Changes to map display of geocoded data to include more than one location on the map.
- Improvements to searching and operation of filters.
- Map search interface.
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Additional Features:
- Improvements to indexing.
- Advanced Search options for the Search line (see Search Help for details).
- Military Units Database and Role of Honour data added.
- Improved detailed displays.
- Improvements to Download Popup boxes including summary of allowed uses.
- Updated citation formats.
Known Bugs:
- Minor issues with display of collection and series metadata where the series includes numbering.
Planned Features for Future Releases:
- Improved date searching.
- Changes to map display of geocoded data to include more than one location on the map.
- Improvements to searching and operation of filters.
Use shift [browser reload] before using to ensure you have the latest version of the code.
Additional Features:
- Share to Facebook and Twitter, including thumbnail.
- When a record has more than one related resource (eg the front and back of a photo) up to 5 resources are displayed as thumbnails in a new "Related resources" section
- Updated citation formats
- Bug fix for acknowledgement buttons on smaller devices
- Bug fixed for thumbnails of videos
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Additional Features:
- Browser support: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge Current and previous full versions.
- Responsive interface including mobile support.
- Home results page refreshed each time the system is accessed exposing more of the collection to serendipitous discovery
- Search bar always available
- Autosuggest for searching
- Search help accessible from search bar.
- Results available as a list
- Google Map link for geocoded items. Note that for many items the geocode is generated automatically from the location field and is only accurate to town and not street level.
- Social media posting for Twitter, Facebook
- Email of suggested metadata enhancements
- Download option for files which aren’t viewable in interface (views provided for TIFF, JPG, PDF, MP3, MP4, EPUB)
- Updated citation formats
- Complete harvest of sources
The Demo site has been developed for use with Chrome on a desktop. The site is not as stable on other platforms.
Additional Features:
- The browser window does not need to be in full screen mode.
- The filters can be opened as closed as required.
- More consistent headers and header options.
- Sort options are now at the top of the filter menu:
- Default sort: most relevant – uses relevancy algorithm to sort results most relevant to search query to the top
- Newest Added: sorted in the order if the date the items were added to digital repository with most recently added first.
- Oldest Added: sorted in the order if the date the items were added to digital repository with the earliest added first.
- Newest Modified: sorted in the order of the date of modification to the metadata record or media file with the newest first
- Oldest Modified: sorted in the order of the date of modification to the metadata record or media file with the oldest first
- Newest Published: sorted in the order of the date of publication (for photographs date taken) with the newest items first.
- Oldest Published: sorted in the order of the date of publication (for photographs date taken) with the oldest items first.
- Selecting a location filter of unspecified returns all results with no location in the metadata record
- Selecting a date filter of unspecified returns all results with no publication date in the metadata record.
- Icons on the thumbnails indicate the type of item that will be viewed for : pdf, tiff, jpeg, mp3, mp4 and link to external site.
- Length of sound recording displays on sound player.
- Additional and improved metadata displays
- JPEGs are now automatically generated for all TIFFs and available for download.
Known Bugs:
- Not all types display in the type facet on home page search
- Search term not always highlighted in PDF documents
- Citation data to be updated
Planned features not in this release
- Further improvements to search filters
- Support for more browsers (currently chrome supported)
- Fully responsive interface and Mobile support
- Ebook Viewer
The Demo system has been developed for use with Chrome on a desktop. The site is not as stable on other platforms. The browser must be in full screen mode.
Additional Features:
- Improved thumbnails for images and documents from LANT, trove newspapers, and where available Trove Pictures.
- Improved Boolean searching – see search help
- Improvements to result filters
- Ability to enter custom date (year) in date filter
- Improved searching of filter terms
- Ability to change the size of the thumbnails on the results page
- Improvements to details screens
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- Changes to metadata displayed
- Clickable links in metadata create a new search – eg clicking on the collection name in a photograph record will find all the photos in that collection
- Improvements to display, searching and navigation of PDF, including next and previous page arrows.
- Download box:
- additional licencing and use information
- Correct file sizes.
- WCAG 2.0 compliance improvements including external links opening is the same TAB. External link can be opened in a new tab using CTRL Click
- Additional data for testing
- Fix not found errors when clicking on a thumbnail in the search page.
- Fixes to know bugs from Release 1.
- The "More" link appears under facets even if there are no more facets to display
- Image file size not correct on download pop up for TIFF images
- Some Tabled Papers have the wrong source
- Default icons where there is no thumbnail are not the correct size
- CTRL + Click does not open item in a new tab
- In Zoom PDF – "Fit" resize option does not fit the item to the page
- Item details page sometimes opens to display the bottom of the screen
- After selecting a page in a PDF only the selected page is searched – not the whole document
- Some newspapers will only display the front page
Known Bugs:
- Not all types display in the type facet on home page search
- Search term not always highlighted in PDF documents
- Citation data to be updated
- Selecting location "unspecified" gives zero results
Planned features not in this release
- Further improvements to search filters
- Support for more browsers (currently chrome supported)
- Fully responsive interface so Facets show regardless of window size
- Mobile support
- Ability to sort results by publication date and recently added
- Ebook Viewer
Features:
- Easy to use search functionality using the following syntax;
- Logic/Boolean operator OR: Multiple words not enclosed in " " are treated as and OR - eg Alice Springs returns results that contain the word Alice or the word Springs
- Phrase search:"" Words within "" are treated as a phrase eg "Alice Springs" returns results that contain the phrase "Alice Springs"
- Truncation*:*: Word starting with – returns results which start with the search term – eg Al* returns results that contain words starting with Al (Alice, algorithm, alert)
- Proximity searching:"xxx yyy"~# returns results where the two words appear within # words of each other. Eg "cattle export"~3 returns results where cattle and export occur within three words of each other, "cattle export"~10 returns results where cattle and export occur within ten words of each other, "cattle export"~1 cattle export or export cattle.
- Filter your search results with facets including; type, collection, date, location, contributor and source
- Search function within facets
- Zoom tool for images and PDFs
- Downloadable high resolution images
- Word searching within PDF documents
- Citation tool
- Clear licencing including Creative Commons
Known bugs:
- The "More" link appears under facets even if there are no more facets to display
- Image file size not correct on download pop up for TIFF images
- Some Tabled Papers have the wrong source
- Default icons where there is no thumbnail are not the correct size
- CTRL + Click does not open item in a new tab
- Some thumbnails for documents are poor quality
- Sometimes the thumbnail is not the first page of the document
- In Zoom PDF – "Fit" resize option does not fit the item to the page
- Item details page sometimes opens to display the bottom of the screen
- After selecting a page in a PDF only the selected page is searched – not the whole document
- Some newspapers will only display the front page
Planned features not in this release:
- Loading icon to display while the user is waiting for an item to load
- Improvements to the PDF viewer menu, including emphasizing the text search tool
- User specified date function within facets
- Audio player to display duration of the file
- Ability to sort search results by date
- Links from the item details panel to a new search e.g. A collection link will take the user to a new search results page of everything in the same collection
- Harvesting improvements
- Support for all browsers
- Mobile responsiveness