Automated Capture of Thumbnails and Thumbshots for Use by Metadata Aggregation Services

Title:

Automated Capture of Thumbnails and Thumbshots for Use by Metadata Aggregation Services (ID: CSD4391)

Author(s):

Muriel Foulonneau (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Thomas G. Habing (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Timothy Cole (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Topics:

Library Information Systems, Metadata, OAI

Source:

D-Lib Magazine

Origin:

Community Contributions (2006)

Type:

Articles, Papers, and Reports

Abstract:

The practice of including thumbnails in short record displays, increasingly common in local implementations, is being adopted by metadata aggregation service providers as well. In addition, thumbnails and Web thumbshots have begun appearing as part of Web search results. This article reports on a project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) to make more comprehensible heterogeneous resources available on the UIUC CIC metadata portal by incorporating thumbnails and thumbshots of image and Webpage resources in the context of the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. In addition to thumbnails provided by partner data providers, UIUC has developed an automated process to generate thumbnails and thumbshots from the Webpages resources pointed to by the metadata records.

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