Archive for the ‘Thumbnails’ Category
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
The recently announced addition of thumbnail navigation to Google Book Search is, unfortunately, only available for full-view. But all magazines in GBS are full-view, so thumbnails are especially useful for them, since [because] they have so many pictures. To use thumnails, go to Read this Magazine (or Book), and click ...
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Until now, books with pictures, especially color pictures, have been a relatively small part of Google Books. But the addition of highly visual, popular magazines changes this -- The titles added so far are filled with pictures!
On one level, more pictures in Google Books is gratifying -- a theme ...
Posted in Google Book Search, Image Search, Magazines, Navigation, PicsYes, Thumbnails, Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
For the most part, DjVu is well-documented (DjVu.org | Wikipedia). I'll add a few comments though, especially regarding its use for viewing books with pictures.
It's widely acknowledged that the DjVu format excels in the online presentation of images/pictures, when compared with PDF, but this is not emphasized as much as ...
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
Finding a heavily illustrated book that's in both Google Books (GBS) and Internet Archive (IA) gives a good comparison of the strengths and weaknesses in the way illustrated books are presented in these systems.
Shown below are the "intro" pages for the book in the 2 systems. The clear advantage of ...
Posted in DjVu, Google Book Search, Hardin MD, Internet Archive, Navigation, PicsYes, Thumbnails, Uncategorized, eBooks | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
"Flickr takes the sun out of the sunset" -- The picture to the left from Flickr shows the full picture and its square thumbnail, in the inset. Thumbnails like these are generated automatically by Flickr and other photo management systems. They work by taking a portion from the ...
Posted in ContentDM, Flickr, Hardin MD, Human input, Pattern recognition, PicsYes, Thumbnails, Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
Friday, August 8th, 2008
Why an article about a children's book site? When I first came across the International Children's Digital Library (ICDL), it immediately struck me as being visually elegant, but could I justify putting it on an academic blog site? The more I thought about it, though, the more it seems ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Over the last three years, we have added close to 800 pictures on about 100 diseases/conditions to Hardin MD.
As the volume of pictures has grown, providing access to them becomes more difficult. For some time, we have grouped pictures on specific disease conditions into small galleries, each with about 3-12 ...
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