by Dictionary of Sydney | Oct 15, 2012 | Blog, Look and feel, Navigation
What could possibly be left to say about the navigation of the Dictionary of Sydney? There are a few things, which I’ll wrap up into this final post in our series. Reading the Dictionary on the road Did you know there is a mobile version of the Dictionary of...
by Dictionary of Sydney | Oct 8, 2012 | Blog, Look and feel, Navigation
In this day and age, when Search is all important and everyone consults Professor Google at the first opportunity, the great virtues and pleasures of a Subject index are a little eclipsed. Not if you are a librarian, of course, or even if you are close to a librarian....
by Dictionary of Sydney | Oct 1, 2012 | Blog, Look and feel, Navigation
There are more pathways into the Dictionary’s content, although some of these are still under construction. Browse Roles is one of these byways, giving you a different set of slices across the Dictionary’s content. By its nature, browsing Roles is...
by Dictionary of Sydney | Sep 24, 2012 | Blog, Look and feel, Navigation
The demographics edition. You knew we were going to get onto statistics eventually, didn’t you? One of the ambitious things about the Dictionary is the way that it aims to become one of the sources about Sydney’s history itself, not just publish about it....
by Dictionary of Sydney | Sep 17, 2012 | Blog, Look and feel, Navigation
The people who have written the text, contributed the multimedia and supported the projects of the Dictionary are among our favourite people. You can find out more about them in the Contributors Browse, at the bottom of the right hand column on the front page. Roll...
by Dictionary of Sydney | Sep 10, 2012 | Blog, Look and feel, Navigation
Let’s talk about maps. The Dictionary has many kinds. You will have noticed the maps that appear on entity pages that have geographic information. Here’s an example. The blue shape also corresponds with the area of Darlinghurst in our demographic series....
