Can someone let me know if its possible to bookmark a search so that I can resume from the last page that I am up to???
Also point me in the right direction for hints and tips for newbies.
cheers
Thanking in advance
Yvonne
Can someone let me know if its possible to bookmark a search so that I can resume from the last page that I am up to???
Also point me in the right direction for hints and tips for newbies.
cheers
Thanking in advance
Yvonne
A good starting point is to read the text correction guidelines -
http://trove.nla.gov.au/forum/showth...ion-guidelines
These are in the process of being updated.
Regards,
Julie.
Yvonne,
If you correct the text save it and then visit 'hittintheroad - View User Profile' and then go to Text corrections, scroll down and the last text you corrected will be there with a link back to it.
Jane
Hi Yvonne,
You can indeed bookmark your search so you can resume from where you left off in your last session.
For the other tips, Julie and Jane have given you some nice ideas.
Mark
Mark Raadgever
Trove Support
National Library of Australia
Just a word of warning about working your way through multiple pages of search results over multiple days by bookmarking ...
When you repeat a search (which loading the bookmarked URL will do), you may find that the results returned are not quite in the same order as they were the first time. Occasionally changes made to the articles (e.g. correcting, tagging) can slightly alter what is returned from a search and the order in which it is returned. So you may find that there are "new" articles popping up on the earlier pages that you think you have already worked through.
If it is of any help, what I usually do is to sort results by date, then - when I bookmark where I am up to - I add a notation to the bookmark of the date of the paper I am up to.
I had originally bookmarked results which had been sorted by relevance, but that seemed to be building (or bookmarking) on shifting sands - probably due to the points Kerry made re. articles being corrected or tagged (or because of more newspapers being added to Trove).
If it suits your purposes to have results sorted by relevance (which can be very useful), then you could always save the results page as a HTML file to your computer (as well as bookmarking), which might be useful if the results have changed too much when you go back to the same search in Trove.
I also bookmark my searches if I'm correcting a collection of articles rather than something specifically for my research. I find this very useful.
Jane
I agree that sorting by date tends to be more repeatable than sorting by relevance, but is still not perfect. An "earlier than you are up to" article can suddenly appear in the earlier search pages as a result of text correction allowing it to match the search query. The other issue is that there is some weird bug in Trove (which I have previously reported) that causes articles to not be in precise date order. It is not uncommon to find articles out of sequence by up to 3 days, e.g. 11 June, 12 June, 11 June, 12 June, 12 June, 13 June, 11 June. Generally this is not a big problem for working through results as they tend to end up on the same (or adjacent) search page of results, but it is something to be aware of.
Revisiting articles that you have already inspected is a pain-in-the-bum. Generally for most projects, you do a number of different searches to turn up interesting articles. In an ideal world, it would be possible to mark an article to say "I have checked this article in respect to this project and it is not useful" so that when it turns up under a repeated search or another search for the same project, you can save time not re-inspecting it. I tagged a whole bunch of articles as "NotAlbury" (meaning they were not relevant to my Albury project) as a way of marking them. This allows me to do searches including
NOT publictag:"NotAlbury"
as a way of eliminating those articles from my search results. It works but means there are now many articles tagged NotAlbury as a result. It would be fine if I could have used private tags (as then nobody else would see them) but you cannot search for private tags, only public tags, so I was forced to put these tags into the public tag space. However, I think the real solution lies in not using tagging at all, but a more explicit way of allowing a user to create a number of projects with which a set of candidate articles can be marked as relevant/not relevant. Projects could be used as a restricted scope for further searching, e.g. find me all the articles about murder within my Albury project. But alas ideas like this depend on Trove getting more cash for further development.
It occurred to me that your question could be addressed from another angle; how to save search query as a bookmark in your browser, and keep it current between sessions.
Easy answer, add &s=xx (where xx is the first entry minus 1 above your search result eg. "Showing: 941 - 960 of 2,690," would have you add &s=940 to the URL in your browser address bar, bookmark by adding this as a bookmark in your browser. Now when your search result requires you to move to a new page, then update the saved bookmark (it goes up by 20), and voila!
Hope this helps, is understandable, and is not covered elsewhere...
John