What's New on this Site
This page records changes made since the initial 2.0b (beta) release of the resuscitated site on December 20, 2024.
New in edition 2.0.8b
Released July 23, 2025
- A new filter,
Number of sources
, has been added to the search page. At the BBTI Workshop in Birmingham on July 22, we discussed the difference between records which appear to be essentially citations—assertions that a single specific source provides X information about Y person—and records which are based on multiple sources, and therefore may be, or are suspected of being, edited syntheses of the information in these sources. These two types of record are performing slightly different roles, and some members of the community feel it is important to distinguish between them. Investigating this, it turns out that there are also more than 2,800 records which have no associated source. Therefore it seemed useful to provide an option to filter search results based on these three types of record.
New in edition 2.0.7b
Released February 28, 2025
- Change to the search page Counties listing to allow searching specifically for records with cities/towns that are not linked to a county.
- Bugfix and enhancement for search page controls: a new County/Region
titled
? (Unknown/Unspecified)
has been added to the Counties selection list which allows selection of records where a city/town has been specified but not a county; this also fixes a bug whereby such cities and towns would be listed under any and all counties.
New in edition 2.0.6.1b
Released January 31, 2025
- Fix for minor obscure JavaScript bug on search page.
New in edition 2.0.6b
Released January 30, 2025
- Selecting counties in the search page now causes the city/town checkbox list to be filtered, showing only cities and towns from the selected counties.
- If the number of search results found is 50 or below, a link will appear offering to view the entire set of search results as a single-page collection.
- Various style tweaks.
New in edition 2.0.5b
Released January 6, 2025
- Change from
(before)
and(after)
to(or earlier)
and(or later)
for date suffix rendering.
New in edition 2.0.4b
Released January 4, 2025
- Full expansions of date suffixes on every record page
New in edition 2.0.3b
Released December 30, 2024
- Corrections to rendering of date suffixes
- Addition of alphabetic links to Sources, Feather, and Abbreviations table pages
- Insertion of original BBTI logo on home page
- Addition of some missing abbreviations
New in edition 2.0.2b
Released December 29, 2024.
- A feature enabling users to create subcollections and share them via simple URLs
- A responsive navigation menu, and other optimizations for display on small-format devices
- A Tools page
- Improved schema constraints for the TEI
- A placeholder favicon
New in edition 2.0.1b
Released December 24, 2024.
- Table of abbreviations added
- John Feather's bibliography linked from the Sources page
- Updates to the stylesheet to better support small-format devices such as phones and tablets
- How to Help page
- This page ("What's New on this Site")
- Some work on tightening the TEI schema (much more to be done there)
- Many minor corrections to typographical and capitalization errors in the data