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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, Instagram
• 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

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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

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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
• • 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

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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