Exploring salient thumbnail generation for archival collections online
Bailey T. Jones, R. Capra · Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) · 2017
This study developed and evaluated a method for generating thumbnails for archival documents utilizing open source image saliency software. Salient thumbnails were evaluated against a baseline by running a lab study that assessed the thumbnails' usefulness during finding and re-finding tasks. Results did not find any significant difference in time, user confidence, or user preference of salient thumbnails compared to the baseline. However, salient thumbnails resulted in improved accuracy during re-finding tasks, suggesting that they may offer some advantage for representing archival correspondence.