National Library of Australia
Since railway building in Australia was 30 years behind that in the United Kingdom, Australian newspapers reported what was going on in the UK.
Since narrow gauge construction was seen as a way of reducing costs, the pioneering NG Festiniog Railway was seen as an exemplar, amongst others.
National Libraries[edit]
The National Libraries of both Wales and Australia have newspaper archives that cover the development of the Festiniog Railway. These archives have been scanned into computer-searchable files. The NLW archive of the FR is perhaps 100 times as big as the NLA one; however the NLA system, is in my humble opinion (IMHO), more usable, as will be seen in the following table.
NL Archive System[edit]
| K | Factor | NLW | NLA | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA | NL | National Library of Wales . . . | National Library of Australia | x |
| AX | Name of Scan/Search system |
Trove | xb | |
| BB | Born | 2015 | 2009 | s |
| BX | Search Order | Fixed | Relevance Oldest Newest |
u |
| CC | Cites | Yes | Yes | t |
| DD | Cite Focus | Nearest Page | Article on Page but not nearest line. |
p |
| EE | Subpages | Yes, with index | Yes, with Index | w |
| GG | Text Correctable | No | Yes | x |
| HH | Audit Trail | N/A (Not Applicable) | Yes Changed lines listed, old and new. Also name of editor. |
q |
| II | View Sync | Poor, if at all. | Raw text and edited text scroll together, in sync. Great! :-) |
m |
| LL | HOF (Hall Of Fame) | No | Yes. Each corrected line scores one point in HOF. |
Why not? Rewards editors. :-) |
| MM | Tags | No | Yes | Helps find things again. Combines synomyms, such as: * Accident/Collision/Crash/Derailment/Disaster/ * Fatality/Injury/Mishap/Tragedy/etc. Handles multi word searches reliably. Certain non-alphanumeric characters excluded. May also be called "Bookmarks?" |
| NN | Comments | No | Yes. Write note about any article. | v |
| OO | Lists | No | Yes. Kind of like a "global" comment. | j |
| PP | Public/Private | No | Yes. Tags, Comments and Lists can be Public/Private. | p |
| VV | Cite Methods | 2 (Wiki cite does not seem to work) | 11 | q |
| YY | Edit History Article |
No | Lists changes to an article, user by user | e |
| Z1 | Edit History User |
Don't know | Lists last 10 edited articles more recent than about a month. |
n |
| Z2 | Search History Delete |
Yes Delete All |
Yes Delete One at a Time |
m |
| Z3 | GB | Smaller | Larger | Extra features of NLA need more memory; costs more. |
| Z5 | GHz | Smaller | Larger | Extra features of NLA need more speed; costs more. |
| Z7 | Wiki (HTML??) | No | No | Pity that "Lists" do not have Wikitables, with some auditing. |
| Z8 | Sharing | No | All users share editing of corrected text Only user can edit own Tags, Comments, Lists. Too strict. |
y |
Cite Samples[edit]
- NLW: Accident - Bridge Collapse [1] [2]
- NLA: Beresford - 50th [3]
- NLA: Accident - Tunnel [4] Search for string "Accident".
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ http://newspapers.library.wales/view/4409336/4409339/52/Festiniog%20AND%20Fatality
- ^ "ShockingFatalityatFestiniog - South Wales Echo". Jones & Son. 1888-02-17. Retrieved 2015-11-29.
- ^ "GUARD OF A TOY RAILWAY". The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947). Brisbane, Qld.: National Library of Australia. 1 January 1914. p. 3. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
- ^ "Latest European Extracts". The Daily Northern Argus. No. 3201. Queensland, Australia. 18 September 1879. p. 3. Retrieved 16 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
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