2020/06/03 by Abigail Mabe, Dhruv Patel, Mabe, Abigail +13
Computer Science · #Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques #Digital Libraries (cs.DL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Video Analysis and Summarization #Web Data Mining and Analysis #cs.DL
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2006.02487
13 pages
arxiv created 2020/06/03 · openalex publication_date 2020/06/03 · arxiv updated 2020/06/05 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We report on the development of TMVis, a web service to provide visualizations of how individual webpages have changed over time. We leverage past research on summarizing collections of webpages with thumbnail-sized screenshots and on choosing a small number of representative past archived webpages from a large collection. We offer four visualizations: image grid, image slider, timeline, and animated GIF. Embed codes for the image grid and image slider can be produced to include these on separate webpages. The animated GIF can be downloaded as an image file for the same purpose. This tool can be used to allow scholars from various disciplines, as well as the general public, to explore the temporal nature of web archives. We hope that these visualizations will just be the beginning and will provide a starting point for others to expand these types of offerings for users of web archives.