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.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 37-51 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | D-Lib Magazine |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 2006 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Library and Information Sciences