Library Updates 26th Oct 2010

Another pass on the library this month has unearthed some literary gems that were lost on dusty selves for close to a century or more.

The Library now includes 128,447 documents. Featured in todays updates are:

• Chronicles of London Bridge – 1827

• The Railway Shareholders Manual – 1847

• Leaves from the Diary of an Army Surgeon – 1863

• Inquisition Unmasked – Vol 2-1816

• The Scientific Monthly – Nov 1916

• Popular Science Monthly – 1902

For a full listing of todays updates click here.

Ultrapedia/Wikipedia Federated Search

19th July 2010 – Wikipedia Federated Search

We’re pleased to announce the introduction of Wikipedia federated searching to the Ultrapedia Library. What this means is that when you search the Ultrapedia Library for a given search term, the search results will also have an entry from Wikipedia at the top the the page.

Below are some example searches to help you get started and for you to try.

• Tower Bridge London
• Medieval Literature
• Napoleon Bonaparte
• Julius Caesar
• The COLLISEUM

Library Updates 12th June 2010

12th June 2010

European Historical Collections

We’ve been busy working behind the scenes for the last few months. We want to bring the cream of the library to the surface in a natural manner, this equates to hands on work by a human rather than a computer, spending time reviewing and grading the library documents. The first pass is to remove documents that slipped through our filtering system, so we have removed 472 documents. The total documents in the library now stands at 135,555.

This months popular documents include:

• Our Planet Its Past and Future by William Denton in 1873
• Scientific American Journal
• View Music & Moods virtual video illustrations from John Keats, Samuel Daniels, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare
• The Diplomacy of Revolution by William Henry Trescot

16th April 2010 Library Updates

1116 new documents were added to the Ultrapedia Library today.

For a full listing of todays updates click here

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Featured Book – A Pictorial History of France

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Topical books selected from todays updates include:

• Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe by John Hewitt in 1860
• An Enquiry into the Scriptural Views of Slavery by Albert Barnes in 1857
• A History of New York by Washington Irving in 1854
• A Pictorial History of France by Samuel Griswold Goodrich in 1861 **Featured**
• A Practical Guide to Climates and Weather… by Henry Francis Blanford in 1889
• The Queens of England and Their Times by Francis Lancelott
• The Voyages and Travels of Captain Ross… by John Ross and others in 1838

This brings the total documents in the Library to 136,458 with the total number of pages at 4,301,630 and the total number of Bookmarks now standing at 596,237.

28th March 2010 Library Updates

28th March 2010 Library Updates

With spring in the air and summer not far away we’ve selected a few titles below for your reading pleasure; coming from the 1066 new documents added to the Ultrapedia Library.

For a full listing of todays updates click here.

Topical books featured todays updates include:

• A Serious Fall in the Value of Gold by William Stanley Jevons in 1863
• A Synopsis of Popery by William Hogan in 1847
• A System of Phrenology by George Combe in 1860
• Animal Physiology by William Benjamin Carpenter in 1859
• Annals of British Legislation in 1863
• An Easter Offering for the Whigs by Henry Bathurst in 1842

This brings the total documents in the Library to 135,450 with the total number of pages at 4,305,982 and the total number of Bookmarks now standing at 592,999.

1st March 2010 Library Updates

1st March 2010 Library Updates

Today we added 7311 new documents to the Ultrapedia Library. Many are letters, lectures, journals, narratives and diaries from notable historical figures – they are a joy to read and explore. We hope you enjoy discovering them.

We also continue to clean up the Library and have removed a further 910 documents that had more than their fair share of recognition errors, leaving a crisper and more accurate representation of the original written work.

For a full listing of todays updates click here.

Also featured in todays updates are:

• A General History of the County of Norfolk by John Chambers in 1829
• A Handbook for Travellers in Gloucestershire by John Murray in 1872
• A Painters Camp in the Highlands by Philip Gilbert Hamerton in 1862
• An Excursion to the Mammoth Cave by Robert Davidson in 1840
• After Prison – What? by Maud Ballington Booth in 1903
• The Life and Public Services of General Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the USA by John S Jenkins

This brings the total documents in the Library to 134,386 with the total number of pages at 4,266,725 and the total number of Bookmarks now standing at 590,045.

8th January 2010 Library Updates

The New Year brings new Library updates. We have been busy in the run up to Christmas and New Year by dividing 1249 of the Books in the Library into 5607 Chapters and further edited the documents to remove some badly recognized characters and phrases. This results in cleaner reading, both in Quick View on the search results page and the downloadable PDF file, as well as swifter searches.

To summarize 5607 documents were added to the Library bringing the total number of documents to 127,283. We’ve also removed 1249 documents. With the new additions and the removed documents the library is now more fluid and refined, providing more targeted results and a more enjoyable read and reference source.

For a full listing of todays updates click here.

Featured in todays updates are: 

• Climate Weather and Disease by Alfred Haviland in 1855
• Our Hardy Grapes by J M Knowlton in 1863
• Our Planet Its Past and Future by William Denton in 1873
• Our Trade in the World in Relation to Foreign Competition by William Shaw Harris Gastrell in 1897
• Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition by George Back in 1836
• Mendelism by Reginald Crundall Punnett in 1911

This brings the total documents in the Library to 127,283 with the total number of pages at 4,088,388 and the total number of Bookmarks now standing at 586,656.

30th November 2009 Library Updates

4603 documents were added to the Library today bringing the total number of documents to 122,925. We’ve also removed 374 documents. With the new additions and the removed documents the library is now more fluid and refined, providing more targeted results and a more enjoyable read and reference source.

For a full listing of todays updates click here.

Featured in todays updates are:

• A Simple Explanation of Modern Banking Customs by Humphrey Robinson in 1910
• Campaigns and Cruises in Venezuela and Ned Grenada by William D Mahoney and Richard Longeville Vowell in 1831
• The History of Cuba by Maturin Murray Ballou in 1854
• History of Napoleon by George Moir Bussey in 1840
• History of the War in Afghanistan by John William Kaye in 1851
• The History of the Union of the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland by Charles Coote in 1802
• History of the Peace by Harriett Martineau

This brings the total documents in the Library to 122,925 with the total number of pages at 4,168,676 and the total number of Bookmarks now standing at 586,479.

www.ultrapedia.com – Maintenance Update

We are pleased to announce the www.ultrapedia.com is back online.

The search features of the website are currently down for maintenance until noon tomorrow – 19th November.

We apologise for the inconvenience.

We’ll keep everyone updated via this Blog and thank you in advance for your patience.

The Ultrapedia Team.

 

www.ultrapedia.com temporarily down for maintenance

www.ultrapedia.com is temporarily down for maintenance.

We sincerely apologise to all our visitors for the inconvenience.

We expect to complete the maintenance within the next few hours.

We’ll keep everyone updated via this Blog and thank you in advance for your patience.

The Ultrapedia Team.