Talk:User group meeting & agenda 6 January 2009

PaperofRecord.com and similar newspaper archiving websites.
Given discussions regarding how to set up pages discussing various record types, and the Maryland Newspapers page, I mentioned on 30 December 2008 a new site called 'Paper of Record' at http://www.paperofrecord.com/.

This site was recently acquired by Google but remains independent of Google at the present time. Claims to have in its early stages over 21 million pages from a number of newspapers, and hopes to have substantially more than that.

What should be done when citing pages from this and other newspaper archiving sites, for example? We will need to be able to direct people to particular collections on these larger sites that are out there, and there will need to be a way to backlink to individual collections or papers on those sites. This is routinely done for finding particular places using Google Maps, but newspaper archiving sites are relatively newer and somewhat more obscure than mapping sites and similar things. JamesAnderson 22:28, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Major new portal template glitch already sighted
Just sighted a major glitch in the new format that is being developed for portal pages.

Was tipped off to it during today's user group meeting (30 December 2008), and found that it consists of two problems.:

1. While the 'Counties' subheading and list is OK, the related countries table is not. The table is OK in Firefox 2.0.0.20, but not in MSIE 7. I'm on Win2k, the same problem appeared on the XP machine Jimmy was demonstrating the portal screen on.

2. The 'Topics' sidebar to the left only will show up in Firefox. It shows BELOW the 'related countries' column in MSIE.

Appears to be a related problem to how the right-side navigation bar behaved back in September when we switched over to the new front page layout and that was when we moved the navbar from the left to the right. JamesAnderson 02:56, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for picking up on that, James. I'll make sure Michael and Mollie are aware of it.

Jbparker 05:47, 31 December 2008 (UTC)