Australia’s National Library has launched an archive of images and articles from Australian newspapers between 1803 and 1954.
The beta site currently features scanned pictures and text from 11 titles.
Content is easily navigable thanks to a panning tool and zoom controls, and can be searched by date, title, state or article keyword.
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Sky News has launched a beta version of its new website, to run in parallel with its existing news site.
It has adopted a top story carousel for the homepage that displays the latest breaking news in video and pictures.
It has also added a story tracker in the right column, which lets you follow a story as it develops, and in the left column a See Your News personalisation feature.
“What you are visiting is very much work in progress. We are testing and trialling new features and a very different design,” Steve Bennedik, editor of Sky News Networked Media, wrote on his blog.
“At the same time we are still offering our existing site. When we are ready, we will switch off the old site and this will be our public face.”
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