Is the EPPI website broken?
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 1:22 pm
The once-excellent EPPI (Enhanced Parliamentary Papers on Ireland 1801 - 1922) website has been favourably mentioned in many threads on the Clare Past forum, e.g.
http://www.ourlibrary.ca/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=350
It was formerly at
http://www.eppi.ac.uk/eppi/digbib/home
which, along with the home page at
http://www.eppi.ac.uk/
is now diverting, unhelpfully, to a general page on digitisation activities at the university of Southampton:
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/library/ldu/projects.html
There is a new home page at
http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/
and Google searches regularly bring up pages like
http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/1768 ... ges/672047
which can be found by Googling
clondrinagh site:eppi.dippam.ac.uk
Using the search form at http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/ to search for
Clondrinagh
unhelpfully says
"No results found. Try widening your search to fulltext using the controls on the left."
Fulltext is already selected by default in the Search Type dropdown menu on the left.
At http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/1768 ... ges/672047 one can read or print the OCR output of the scanning of the relevant page. Like any OCR rendition of an input page organised in columns, it is very hard to make sense of, and it would be lovely to see an image of the orignal page.
There is a link to an image of the page which should be at
http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/images/pages3/ ... 000179.jpg
but the image is missing and following the link says:
"404: File Missing
DIPPAM is currently under development and subject to occasional bugs. This error has been reported and will be investigated. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Go Back"
There is also a "Download PDF" link but it just points back to
http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/1768 ... ges/672047
sucking the desperate reader into an infinite loop of clicking and reloading.
I've had these problems in both Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.
The contact details on the EPPI website are very well hidden at
http://www.dippam.ac.uk/static_pages/contact/
where I eventually found an e-mail address to which I could send this error report.
Can anyone help? Have any of those who formerly praised this website used it successfully of late?
http://www.ourlibrary.ca/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=350
It was formerly at
http://www.eppi.ac.uk/eppi/digbib/home
which, along with the home page at
http://www.eppi.ac.uk/
is now diverting, unhelpfully, to a general page on digitisation activities at the university of Southampton:
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/library/ldu/projects.html
There is a new home page at
http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/
and Google searches regularly bring up pages like
http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/1768 ... ges/672047
which can be found by Googling
clondrinagh site:eppi.dippam.ac.uk
Using the search form at http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/ to search for
Clondrinagh
unhelpfully says
"No results found. Try widening your search to fulltext using the controls on the left."
Fulltext is already selected by default in the Search Type dropdown menu on the left.
At http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/1768 ... ges/672047 one can read or print the OCR output of the scanning of the relevant page. Like any OCR rendition of an input page organised in columns, it is very hard to make sense of, and it would be lovely to see an image of the orignal page.
There is a link to an image of the page which should be at
http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/images/pages3/ ... 000179.jpg
but the image is missing and following the link says:
"404: File Missing
DIPPAM is currently under development and subject to occasional bugs. This error has been reported and will be investigated. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Go Back"
There is also a "Download PDF" link but it just points back to
http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/1768 ... ges/672047
sucking the desperate reader into an infinite loop of clicking and reloading.
I've had these problems in both Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.
The contact details on the EPPI website are very well hidden at
http://www.dippam.ac.uk/static_pages/contact/
where I eventually found an e-mail address to which I could send this error report.
Can anyone help? Have any of those who formerly praised this website used it successfully of late?