My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven
Posted on: January 16th, 2008 by Matt Raymond
If you’re reading this, then chances are you already know about Web 2.0. Even if you don’t know the term itself, you’re one of millions worldwide who are actively creating, sharing or benefiting from user-generated content that characterizes Web 2.0 phenomena.
As a communicator, I want to expand the reach of the Library and access to our magnificent collections as far and wide as possible. Of course, there are only so many hours in the day, so many staff in Library offices and so many dollars in the budget. Priorities have to be chosen that will most effectively advance our mission.
That’s why it is so exciting to let people know about the launch of a brand-new pilot project the Library of Congress is undertaking with Flickr, the enormously popular photo-sharing site that has been a Web 2.0 innovator. If all goes according to plan, the project will help address at least two major challenges: how to ensure better and better access to our collections, and how to ensure that we have the best possible information about those collections for the benefit of researchers and posterity. In many senses, we are looking to enhance our metadata (one of those Web 2.0 buzzwords that 90 percent of our readers could probably explain better than me).
The project is beginning somewhat modestly, but we hope to learn a lot from it. Out of some 14 million prints, photographs and other visual materials at the Library of Congress, more than 3,000 photos from two of our most popular collections are being made available on our new Flickr page, to include only images for which no copyright restrictions are known to exist.
The real magic comes when the power of the Flickr community takes over. We want people to tag, comment and make notes on the images, just like any other Flickr photo, which will benefit not only the community but also the collections themselves. For instance, many photos are missing key caption information such as where the photo was taken and who is pictured. If such information is collected via Flickr members, it can potentially enhance the quality of the bibliographic records for the images.
We’re also very excited that, as part of this pilot, Flickr has created a new publication model for publicly held photographic collections called ???The Commons.??? Flickr hopes??�as do we??�that the project will eventually capture the imagination and involvement of other public institutions, as well.
From the Library’s perspective, this pilot project is a statement about the power of the Web and user communities to help people better acquire information, knowledge and??�most importantly??�wisdom. One of our goals, frankly, is to learn as much as we can about that power simply through the process of making constructive use of it.
More information is available on the Library’s Web site here and on the FAQ page here.
And with that, gentlemen (and gentlewomen), start your tagging!
UPDATE: You can read Flickr’s take here.
(Image of baseball player ???Bugs??? Raymond from the Library’s Bain Collection because I liked the surname. Image of grain elevator from Caldwell, Idaho, from the Library’s FSA/OWI Color Photographs Collection because it helps illustrate that there are active Flickr user groups for even such diverse subjects as grain elevators.)
Tags: flickr, photos, photographs, history, libraries, tagging, metadata, cataloging, cataloguing, librarians
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January 16th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
[...] Library of Congress team has also blogged about the project, if you’d like to read about it from their [...]
January 16th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Congrats on the launch. LC is the second (that we know of) library to work with Flickr. The National Library of Australia and their Picture Australia project has offered a Flickr section for a couple of years. We’ve posted about it on ResourceShelf.
January 16th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
I love this idea. This is exactly the right direction to go in with parts of your collection. Thank you!
Now, since I can’t help meddling… It would be useful to find ways to geo-locate these photos. Within your existing information on many, there is information as to town or county in which the photo was taken. Why not add that information in tag form (geo_state:delaware, geo_county:kent, geo_place:dover, for example).
beyond that, there may be users out here that can place a photo with more specificity. Flickr provides a very nice map interface that allows us to “place” our own shots. It might be possible to open that up in some form to the commons to allow people to “place” some of these. You might have to add some oversight to that, to avoid irresponsible or erroneous placement. Perhaps suggested placements could be qued for review by staff?
just a thought…
January 16th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
[...] My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven From Matt Raymond’s post: …it is so exciting to let people know about the launch of a brand-new pilot project the Library of Congress is undertaking with Flickr, the enormously popular photo-sharing site that has been a Web 2.0 innovator. If all goes according to plan, the project will help address at least two major challenges: how to ensure better and better access to our collections, and how to ensure that we have the best possible information about those collections for the benefit of researchers and posterity. In many senses, we are looking to enhance our metadata (one of those Web 2.0 buzzwords that 90 percent of our readers could probably explain better than me). [...]
January 16th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
This is so great! The only disappointment is not being able to search within the collection (either by using the searchbox or clicking on tags). Will that work in the future?
January 16th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Lynn, in terms of the tags, the only tag that was added to each image was “Library of Congress.” Part of the pilot aspect of this is to set the community loose and see what tags it applies. Hopefully a colleague can answer the search question …
January 16th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Lynn - that problem should be addressed now. We had to give our search boxes a bit of a kick
E.g. http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/tags/orange/ should be showing up for everyone now.
January 16th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
[...] interesting posting from the venerable Library of Congress on its blog (which by itself is pretty cool). Here’s a [...]
January 16th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
[...] an account with millions of images marked “No known copyright restrictions.” From the Library’s blog: The project is beginning somewhat modestly, but we hope to learn a lot from it. Out of some 14 [...]
January 16th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Mike Mahaffie : If you are interested in adding geo-related tags, you might also be interested in the “machine tags” feature on the site :
http://www.flickr.com/groups/api/discuss/72157594497877875/
The short version is : machine tags are just like tags but with a special syntax to both identify, and search for, facets of a tag.
So, “geo_county:dover” would become “geo:county=dover”, “geo:state=delaware” and so on.
Once indexed, you can query for photos based on entire machine tags or just parts (geo:, geo:county=, etc.)
http://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.photos.search.html
Cheers,
January 16th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
[...] of Congress Partners with Flickr…and You) and then the official Library of Congress Blog (My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven), this partnership places within the collaborative photo sharing site more than 3,000 images where [...]
January 16th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
[...] If you wan to read more about this you can read a blog post by David Weinberger or go directly to the original post. [...]
January 16th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
[...] chime in. ———via LOC blog: “The real magic comes when the power of the Flickr community takes over. We want people to [...]
January 16th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
I’d like to encourage the LOC to mirror the data on their own site. The vast majority of districts I work with block Flickr because of CIPA compliance. Since Flickr names images within their root directory, and only links to those from the subdirectory, it doesn’t seem to work for the district to unblock http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress.
I’d also like to second Mike’s suggestion (#3) about geo-location, both within the tagging and with absolute coordinates, where available. It would make a nice mashup with Google Earth!
January 16th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
[...] Just announced this morning - a fantastic partnership between Flickr and the Library of Congress. [...]
January 16th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Welcome to Flickr Library of Congress
The Library of Congress just informed me of a new project they have undertaken with, Web 2.0 photo community, Flickr. In addition to posting photos on its own the Library of Congress website they have decided to also start putting historic photo sets o…
January 16th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
[...] You should proceed as soon as possible to check out the Library of Congress’s page on flickr, as announced this morning. [...]
January 16th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
[...] Boing Boing, according to the Library of Congress blog, LoC has created a Flickr page and is allowing folks to tag 3000+ the photos hosted [...]
January 16th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
That’s great news. Are you also going to submit public-domain pictures to the Wikimedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org)? As much as I love Flickr (I’m a Pro user with several thousands of pictures up on the site), it’s still a commercial company, whereas the Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit with a clear mission.
January 16th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
[...] I’ve posted an item about the new Library of Congress page on Flickr. According to Librarian/Blogger Matt Raymond, “if all goes according to plan, the project will help address at least two major challenges: [...]
January 16th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
[...] now I have another reason to use the photosite (when I’m not uploading my own pics) as the Library of Congress has decided to start an account and use Flickr to help make their photos more accessible to folks. The goals for the [...]
January 16th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
[...] Excited-to-the-power-10 about this. Just as I’d spend tons of hours on the Google Patent Search in 2006, LOC on Flickr will make me too. I just know it. It’s a long way to go but instead of archiving thousands of photos in one set, representing one decade, wouldn’t it have made more sense to have each set represent a category and make a collection for that year? Well, it’s a great start! [via Mashable] [...]
January 16th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Flickr (heart) You, and so do we! I second (third?) the suggestion to open up the geolocation tagging. The map is one of my favorite flickr features.
January 16th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
What an awesome idea! Thanks so much for doing this!
In the interests of “as far and wide as possible” can other sites get in on the game? Maybe even collaborate together?
I run SmugMug and would love to participate somehow.
Thanks!
January 16th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
[...] The Commons (อ่านเพิ่มเติม: ประ�?าศของ LC �?ับ [...]
January 16th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
[...] today, the LOC announced that they were going to be using Flickr in an an innovative new way to help bring more photos [...]
January 16th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
This is sounds like a great project. The functionality of Flickr’s user interface and the LC collection. I can see myself browsing for hours on end.
January 16th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
[...] http://www.loc.gov/blog/?p=233 [...]
January 16th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
[...] Flickr to crowdsource tagging and organizing its photo archive. Annonce sur le blogue de la LoC: My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven) « en vrac sur [...]
January 16th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
I’m so stoked right now. This is incredible. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
January 16th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
[...] now announced a partnership with photo service Flickr to publish LoC photographs online — “My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven”. This isn’t just a geek-chic thing to do; they have some very specific [...]
January 16th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
[...] more about it here: [...]
January 16th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
I was disappointed to learn from an earlier comment that the Childrens’ Internet Protection Act has resulted in a ban on all of Flickr. Rather than mirroring, perhaps the underlying problem with the legislation or with its implementation should be fixed…
January 16th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
[...] iniciativa la que realiza la Biblioteca de Estados Unidos y Flickr. Se trata de Commons de una buena cantidad de fotografías históricas que no poseen [...]
January 16th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
[...] Library of Congress is partnering with Flickr, releasing pictures that it believes are not copyrighted, through [...]
January 16th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
[...] = awesome January 16, 2008 Filed under: Uncategorized — ellenh @ 8:08 pm Wow. The Library of Congress and Flickr have partnered together to harness the power of Flickr users to describe and catalogue [...]
January 16th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
This is an excellent move and it looks like the pilot project is already getting the attention it needs for LC to start moving forward with additional projects!
January 16th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Has the Library and/or flickr considered randomizing the images that appear on the collection homepage? I suspect that this would help to even out the page views and tag distribution.
Not that folks on the internet are too lazy to view 172 pages of images, but…
January 16th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
[...] thereby making the collections easier to search and use. Here are the announcements from Flickr and The Library of Congress. There are two main aims to The Commons project, starting with the pilot: firstly, to increase [...]
January 16th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven
Bookmarked your post over at Blog Bookmarker.com!
January 16th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
What a great idea!
If you need assistance with video you should try the equivalent, Viddler.com
January 16th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Brilliant. Thank you!
January 16th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
[...] More over at the Flickr blog and the LoC’s own blog. [...]
January 16th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
[...] the story on the Library of Congress blog here. Visit their Flickr page [...]
January 16th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Why is a part of the federal government giving such a huge gift to a commercial company?
Was there some sort of competitive bidding for this plan?
How do I get 3000 or more outdoors pictures I can put on my website?
January 17th, 2008 at 12:03 am
[...] their photos on Flickr. They are also providing context about the photos, links to the full URL, blogging about this, and being honest about the copyright restrictions. Most of which so far say “no none [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 12:15 am
[...] are the details on the Library of Congress Blog posted as My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven. Matt Raymond lists down what is made available via Flickr and why the move was [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 12:30 am
[...] Library of Congress Blog » My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven Out of some 14 million prints, photographs and other visual materials at the Library of Congress, more than 3,000 photos are being made available on our new Flickr page, to include only images for which no copyright restrictions are known to exist. (tags: library flickr photo stock tag social images) [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 12:50 am
[...] a blog post, the LoC said: From the Library’s perspective, this pilot project is a statement about the power [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 1:03 am
[...] describe brief moments in history by adding tags or leaving comments. Very cool if you ask me. [via] No Responses to “Uncommon” Feed for this Entry Trackback [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 1:20 am
[...] Here’s the blog entry from the Library of Congress blog. Tagging [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 1:36 am
[...] National Archives and the Library of Congress. While browsing our nation’s library, I noticed this posting, announcing that the Library of Congress recently uploaded over 3,000 images to [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 2:13 am
I’ve been writing one my blog about archival photos from The Library of Congress and the National Archives and Records Administration since July of 2005. I’m looking forward to easily seeing new images as you post them to your account.
Neon Poisoning: The Best Photographs the Federal Government has to Offer - 8
January 17th, 2008 at 3:28 am
[...] Matt Raymond, Director of Communications for the Library of Congress: “We want people to tag, comment and make notes on the images, just like any other Flickr photo, which will benefit not only the community but also the collections themselves.” Wow. See and annotate the photos on the LOC flickr page. [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 3:57 am
[...] My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 4:06 am
[...] a post titled “My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven” on the Library of Congress blog (who knew the Library of Congress had a blog?), the Library [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 5:17 am
[...] библиотека Конгре�?�?а СШ�? объ�?вила в �?воём блоге о том, что они начали очередной проект по [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 6:55 am
[...] Library of Congress and Flickr have collaborated on a pilot project to encourage members of the public to help describe [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 8:17 am
I like the surname, too.
January 17th, 2008 at 8:46 am
[...] Library of Congress Blog site Partners with Flickr for historical pictures (tags: blogging blogs Government HISTORY Web2.0 photos digital-storytelling) [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Historic Photos and Folksonomies
I’ve long been an advocate of folksonomies. It allows the wider community to add knowledge to resources through tags and comments, ultimately making things easier to find. A number of institutions have allowed free tagging of certain resources fo…
January 17th, 2008 at 9:27 am
I hope those working on this project consider presenting at the American Association for History and Computing Conference being held online. It will be all about Web 2.0.
http://www.theaahc.org
January 17th, 2008 at 9:30 am
[...] The U.S. Library of Congress has a blog. [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Congratulation on the launch, thanks for doing this!
January 17th, 2008 at 11:04 am
[...] that there’s some buzz around the announcement today from the Library of Congress that it has teamed up with Yahoo’s Flickr to put public domain images online for everyone to see and comment on. That’s exactly the sort of thing the Library of Congress [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 11:24 am
I also learn to use flickr in my few blogs. It has amazing features. I agree that flickr is not just a photo sharing.
January 17th, 2008 at 11:25 am
[...] you can sign up for free and help this project by adding tags to the photos. � � � Here is the� original post� from the LoC Blog, and here is the� FAQ about the [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 11:32 am
There seems to be no mention of security whatsoever.
January 17th, 2008 at 11:58 am
[...] has opened a Flickr account and started putting up historical photographs.� � As they said in the blog post announcing it, they’re hoping to tackle two challenges with this project: how to ensure [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
[...] The Commons: Flickr and Library of Congress The Library of Congress began last year first collaboration with Flickr and now has launched its pilot project called The Commons. Yesterday they announced a partnership that will put photos from the LoC’s collection online in a social environment and users to interact with them. LoC started organizing historical photograph collections through Flickr offering 3000 photos (so far): two sets of digitized photos from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information and photos from the George Grantham Bain News Service. “The key goals of this pilot project are to firstly give you a taste of the hidden treasures in the huge Library of Congress collection, and secondly to how your input of a tag or two can make the collection even richer.” By tagging or commenting.� From official web site Library of Congress you can find more information about this project, as well as on the blog of LoC. [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
[...] a quote from the Library’s� blog� posted today. Check out their� Flickr page. I can see clients with some older, historical photos [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
As a university librarian, I can see some value in what the LOC is doing but I think it’s another misguided attempt in their continuing efforts at dumbing down metadata.
It’s great that they’re providing more access to these images by making them more readily apparent to the public. They’re crazy if they think anything meaningful will come from letting users tag these photos.
The LOC should be looking to the future by guiding metadata standards for the semantic web and ensuring that the library as an institution is still relevant 10-20 years from now. They should not, in my opinion, spin their wheels and waste time, effort and money playing catch-up with tagging technology that’s, at best, a temporary measure until the day when information on the web finds you and not the other way around.
They have (had) a real opportunity to be the leaders in intelligently organizing the world’s information, or at least in providing the framework through intelligent metadata standards. Unfortunately they seem content to say “Me too!” to trends and technologies that are, by today’s standards, already old.
Given the way their cataloging standards are slipping I don’t find this to be surprising as much as disappointing. I really expect more from the LOC.
January 17th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
I am over the moon. You have brought history to me and brought it alive. I use my local library many times a week. I’ve worked in many museums. I think I’m pretty saavy. But I would never have found your online home if it weren’t for the flickr program. Thank you a million to the forward thinking people who took the brilliant step to look outside of yourselves for a new way to exhibit and have a two-way communication on the http://WWW.
January 17th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Nice. Very Nice. An absolutely great idea! Thanks very much for doing this!
January 17th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
[...] collections on Flickr and inviting people to add tags and other descriptive data.� The announcement here on the LC Blog and here on the Flickr [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
This is great news! Congratulations to everyone involved, and thank you!
January 17th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
[...] � Library of Congress Gets a Flickr! [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
[...] La Library of Congress su Flickr La Library of Congress di nuovo al centro dell’attenzione della community 2.0: questa volta l’evento è davvero incredibile. Si tratta di un accordo stretto dalla più rinomata biblioteca del mondo e dal più famoso sito di social tagging dedicato alle immagini: Flickr. Tutti i dettagli sul blog della biblioteca. [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
[...] The Library of Congress has more here. [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
[...] day and I learned that the Library of Congress has put over 3000 photos up on Flickr as part of a pilot project.� They’re broken down into two separate groupings: News in the 1910’s and the [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
[...] Library of Congress blog post explaining the decision [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
[...] photos and other visual materials at the Library of Congress, according to the archive’s blog, but hey, it’s a pilot [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
[...] Thursday, January 17, 2008 by level1librarian From the LC blog: [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
[...] Library of Congress is now using Flickr, and Flickr’s new commons area, to load images for collaborative tagging. [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
[...] on the LoC’s Flickr Page Published 17 January, 2008 tags , taxonomies The Library of Congress is fixing to harness the power of Flickr tags to create a powerfully searchable image collection.� [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
[...] such coolness — the Library of Congress recently announced that it’s teaming up with Flickr. According to the LOC blog post, “If all goes [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
[...] The Library of Congress has more here. [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
[...] linksLibrary of Congress Photos on Flickr (Prints and Photographs Reading Room, Library of Congress)Library of Congress Blog » My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven (Library of Congress)Straks doet het web het werk - Het Financieele DagbladCanon met onbekende filmbeelden - RADIO [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
[...] of Congress..Flickr? The Library of Congress is keeping with the times with..a flickr? And apparently, the photos are all under a new [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
[...] those who, like me, enjoy visual history, the Library of Congress has started posting more than 3000 images, those that have no copyright restrictions, from two of [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
[...] l’instant ce n’est un pilote mais imaginez un peu si cette bibliothèque injecte les 14 millions de [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
[...] Staff Writer, CNET News.com. Published: January 17, 2008, 1:34 PM PST Library of Congress Blog. My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven Posted on: January 16th, 2008 by Matt [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
[...] photos and other visual materials at the Library of Congress, according to the archive’s blog, but hey, it’s a pilot project. [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
[...] Library of Congress also blogged the news, under the title ‘My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven‘, where they suggest that it’s a way for them to expand the reach of their Library, and [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Wow - this is amazing. It’s like the great photographers of the past century rose from the dead to school us amateurs on Flickr on how it’s done.
January 17th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
[...] My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven — Library of Congress to post photos on [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
This sounds like a great project! I was wondering if Flickr was persisting the tags within the JPEG file in addition to persisting them within its own database? This would insure that the tags that people enter are copied, each time the photo is copied. Typically this information is written into EXIF tags within the JPEG file. It would also make it easier for the LOC to index the images once they get them back from Flickr.
January 17th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
[...] on January 17, 2008 In case you missed it on the Flickr blog, Flickr is collaborating with the Library of Congress to make thousands of historical photos accessible to all. I believe these photos, and many more, [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Kudos!
January 17th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
[...] This is so exciting! I use Flickr to house my own photos and I’m thrilled to say we use Flickr at work, too, but what the Library of Congress is proposing is really revolutionary in that a very large, extremely credible and� federal (!!) institution� is venturing into the world of online community and social tagging and encouraging other libraries and other cultural institutions to do the same by using all that Flickr has to offer. [...]
January 18th, 2008 at 12:11 am
LOC + Flickr equals Crowdsourced Tagging
It is no surprise that the Library of Congress announcing the publication of images on Flickr is news both in mainstream news outlets and in the blogosphere. From librarian.net’s short and cheery LoC goes 2.0! post to ArchivesNext’s ponderi…
January 18th, 2008 at 1:58 am
These images are awesome. This was such a brilliant idea! I’ve been going through them in Flickr and tagging like crazy for the past 2 hours!
January 18th, 2008 at 2:25 am
Kudos on a fabulous idea. Brilliant. Please post a lot more photos. Put history right in front of folks’ eyes so they can’t miss it.
January 18th, 2008 at 2:54 am
3,000 photos = 3 million words imagination spark
Photo: Rural school children, San Augustine County, Texas, 1943 April | Photographer: John Vachon, 1914-1975 | Library of Congress Photo Collections A picture is said to be worth a thousand words. If you have 3,000 photos … well, I’ve done the math …
January 18th, 2008 at 3:14 am
classic picture… Thank for share
January 18th, 2008 at 6:57 am
[...] effort to identify the subjects of it’s photograph collection, the US Library of Congress is opening its vaults and pushing pictures up to Flickr. The Library is depositing some 3,000 photographs on Flickr’s site as part of [...]
January 18th, 2008 at 8:12 am
[...] me dio el tiempo. Leía ayer en Sicrono y hoy en Denken Über. El tema es así, Flickr junto a la Biblioteca del Congreso de EE.UU. crearon un espacio llamado Commons. ¿Qué es Commons? Son una serie de fotografías historicas, [...]
January 18th, 2008 at 8:42 am
[...] From the announcement on the Library of Congress blog. [...]
January 18th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Library of Congress pics on flickr
Via Agence France Presse’s MediaWatch blog: The US Library of Congress is collaborating with the photo-sharing site flickr on an ambitious new project, making around 3,000 of the Library’s most popular collections available on the site and…
January 18th, 2008 at 10:06 am
[...] Esta é uma foto, impressa em papel a partir de um negativo em vidro, medindo 5 x 7 polegadas e datado entre 1910 e 1915. E isto é tudo que se sabe. Você sabe algo mais? Se souber, pode colaborar acrescentando informações � foto. O chamamento está sendo feito pela Library of Congress, como parte de seu projeto piloto de disponibilização de fotos no Flickr. Como muitas das fotos (todas sem restrição de copyright)que estão sendo disponibilizadas têm identificação precária, os usuários estão sendo convidados a colaborar, acrescentando informações sobre as imagens. Via Library of Congress Blog [...]
January 18th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Great news - makes me feel proud to be a librarian. Geo-location tagging would be nice as well. Thanks!
January 18th, 2008 at 11:13 am
[...] Library of Congress Blog » My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven (Library of Congress) [...]
January 18th, 2008 at 11:26 am
This is great. Access to the photos from LC will be the greatest. Though 60+ yo, am studying the world via photos, and some of the architecture, cathedrals, etc., lead me to more knowledge. Some private photos don’t reveal where taken. I love the geo tagging.
January 18th, 2008 at 11:50 am
[...] My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven [...]
January 18th, 2008 at 11:53 am
“Light and liberty go together.”
Es ist doch immer wieder schön zu sehen, dass es Leute gibt, die das mit diesem Web2.0-Ding ernst nehmen. Wer ist diesmal schuld? Natürlich wieder die Amis. Die Library of Congress, um genau zu sein. Diese hat 3115 Fotos bei flickr eingestell…
January 18th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Great news. It will be interesting to see what additional insights this brings to these collections.
Geotagging information would be a good addition, however, I was disappointed to see that the images that are on Flickr have no metadata in them at present!
I’m curious as to whether they had any Exif / IPTC / XMP metadata when uploaded, and this has been stripped out on upload to Flickr, or whether they never had any to begin with.
Using Jeffrey Friedls online Exif Metadata viewer (http://regex.info/exif.cgi?) about the only information in the file I saw was that the files had been saved or processed with Handmade Software, Inc. Image Alchemy v1.11.
Having the metadata that appears under the image in the file itself would be much more useful for any of us that might download an image for reference, as without this info it’s doubtful that we will be able to track it back to the LOC or Flickr.
David
January 18th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Yes, fan mail. Us cycling fanatics have been scraping the bicycle pictures, which are getting many comments and are being enjoyed by people world-wide. Once again, I cannot think of a better use for a small slice of my tax dollars. Kudos.
January 18th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
[...] Congress blog, (heheh, of course they have a blog!) they explain the pilot program in a post titled My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven: The real magic comes when the power of the Flickr community takes over. We want people to tag, [...]
January 18th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
[...] here with over 3,000 old photos that are copyright free. Here’s the Library of Congress blog post regarding this news. They’re looking for people to tag and make notes on these photos! And [...]
January 18th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
[...] was an entirely happy coincidence this week that we announced both the Flickr pilot project and an amazing photographic discovery on exactly the same [...]
January 18th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
This would be a dream job to have! If only libraries in Canada would get on the bandwagon…
January 18th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
[...] Flickr has created ‘The Commons’ - “a new model for publicly held photographic collections.” “If the pilot works well, Flickr will make it available to other institutions: more at libraryjournal.com and the LC blog [...]
January 18th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
[...] My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven — Announcent on the Library of Congress blog [...]
January 19th, 2008 at 12:03 am
[...] 9 month old blog and director of communications says, “The response to the Library’s pilot project with Flickr has been nothing short of astounding. You always hope for a positive reaction to [...]
January 19th, 2008 at 5:57 am
This is such a good and open-minded approach to the public. A great idea which I’m sure will take off. Being able to see all those old images so easily is great for us photo fanatics and also history buffs. The tagging is so helpful when browsing the collection.
January 19th, 2008 at 7:08 am
[...] de colecciones públicas de todo del mundo. Han empezado con una experiencia piloto junto a la Biblioteca del Congreso de EEUU, que tiene una colección de más de 1 millón de fotos (además de otra cantidad ingente de [...]
January 19th, 2008 at 11:52 am
[...] the LoC-blog: If you’re reading this, then chances are you already know about Web 2.0. Even if you don’t [...]
January 19th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
[...] to the LOC’s blog entry announcing the venture, the pilot project will: help address at least two major challenges: how to [...]
January 19th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
This is a great idea, being able to tag photos like these will be incredible and I imagine diverse and interesting.
I love looking back at photos like this, it’s visual history and very interesting, I love that we have recorded life in this way. And being able to search and browse through them with this extra help is great!
January 19th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
I’ve been using the American Memory site for years. My students have turned out some great multimedia projects with LOC images. And I’ve been able to illustrate History lessons with images not found in textbooks. This new partnership with Flicker makes accessibility that much easier. Truly, our national treasures are being shared with the people.
January 20th, 2008 at 12:25 am
[...] Library of Congress Blog [...]
January 20th, 2008 at 10:22 am
[...] any longer, the library has decided to make all it’s photographic preciousness publicly available with the help of flickr, the [...]
January 20th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
I applaud the effort and find it very exciting!
One question - will you be posting anything at a higher size/resolution?
At 1024 pixels, the images are a bit small for doing anything other than browsing.
Thanks for this effort!
January 20th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
[...] Library of Congress Blog announced this past week the launch of a new pilot project with Flickr to make over 3000 vintage [...]
January 21st, 2008 at 1:59 am
what a shame the LOC has put their slipshod collection on flicker , its almost like a training course on how not to present pictures cocked , poor color adjustment , poor levels , dirt and scratches , never mind about tagging these pictures i think the flicker folks should band together and clean these ,its a national shame to present our countrys tresures like this , and if you doubt my word go to the loc web page and check out the little seen ansel adams collection of pictures taken in the japanese internment camps , every one needs work
January 21st, 2008 at 2:07 am
[...] 20, 2008 In case you missed it, the Library of Congress has made available a wealth of pictures to the public using [...]
January 21st, 2008 at 10:49 am
[...] Library of Congress Blog: � http://www.loc.gov/blog/?p=233 [...]
January 21st, 2008 at 11:21 am
[...] Moving on to something a little more exciting … Last year I wrote about the possibilities of crowdsourcing photo archives, so I was happy to learn that the Library of Congress is giving it a go. [...]
January 21st, 2008 at 2:02 pm
[...] Library of Congress has started posting pictures from their archives to Flickr. That is seriously cool. And in case you missed it, NPR covered it [...]
January 21st, 2008 at 3:12 pm
[...] long time is that the Library of Congress has teamed up with Flickr to create The Commons. From the LoC blog: As a communicator, I want to expand the reach of the Library and access to our magnificent [...]
January 21st, 2008 at 6:00 pm
[...] you’d like to read more, then the LOC blog post is here and Flickrs’ news about it is [...]
January 22nd, 2008 at 11:34 am
[...] [Read more @ the Library of Congress Blog] [Here our some words from Flickr] [...]
January 22nd, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Flickr: Library of Congress gibt 3.000 Bilder zum Massentagging frei
Die Inhalte des bereits am 16. Januar angekündigten Pilot-Projekts (via) unterliegen ausschließlich der urheberrechtsfreien public domain und dürfen somit auch in Blogs oder auf der eigenen Homepage Verwendung finden.
Einzige “Eins…
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:34 pm
[...] this out. The Library of Congress blog notes the great response to their Flickr project, which was published to encourage users to assist with tagging photos in their vast collections. In [...]
January 23rd, 2008 at 1:16 pm
[...] hat eine Kooperation mit Library Of Congress gemacht. Auf der Webseite von Flickr kann man sich� historische Bilder vom [...]
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:25 pm
[...] begin dit jaar loopt er echter een leuk en interessant project op Flickr met fotomateriaal dat gebruikers zelf kunnen taggen. Op de LoC-blog staat: The project is [...]
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:05 pm
[...] Post 1 [...]
January 24th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
[...] Este é um retrato de “Miss Loew”, impresso em papel a partir de um negativo em vidro, medindo 5 x 7 polegadas e datado entre 1910 e 1915.� Quem souber mais sobre a imagem, pode colaborar acrescentando informações � foto.� Esta e muitas outras imagens� pertencem � � Library of Congress, que como parte de seu projeto piloto , tem� disponibilizado fotos no Flickr. Como muitas das fotos (todas sem restrição de copyright)que estão sendo disponibilizadas têm identificação precária, os usuários estão sendo convidados a colaborar, acrescentando informações sobre as imagens. Via Library of Congress Blog� [...]
January 24th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
[...] Library of Congress Blog [...]
January 24th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
[...] Flickr and the Library of Congress (from the Library of Congress blog) A new partnership will address two major challenges: how to ensure better and better access to LOC collections, and how to ensure that the LOC will have the best possible information about those collections for the benefit of researchers and posterity. (tags: collaboration opensource photography socialsoftware) [...]
January 25th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
[...] http://www.loc.gov/blog/?p=233 [...]
January 25th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
i think web 2.0 is over rated goplay was years ahead of myspace and is exactly the same as goplay apart from it makes money, as for Flickr don’t get me started on that, still love the photos.
January 25th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
[...] to get all the facts right (and probably missing something), I’m just gonna link to The Library of Congress Blog post (did you know there was one?) and here’s The Library of Congress’s Flickr [...]
January 26th, 2008 at 11:21 am
[...] blog posting “Many hands make the work light.“ The Library of Congress team has also blogged about the project and NPR interviewed the Library of Congress on Monday (January 21st, 2008) during [...]
January 26th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
[...] Página da biblioteca no Flick: http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/ Post no blog da instituição explicando o projeto:� http://www.loc.gov/blog/?p=233 [...]
January 28th, 2008 at 11:46 am
Jake McKee: On the individual Flickr pages for the photos, there is a link back to the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog record for the image.
There you will be able to find VERY high-res versions, generally TIF files in the tens of megabytes.
January 28th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
[...] to the Library of Congress blog, there are more than 14 million photos and other visual materials but the project is starting off [...]
January 29th, 2008 at 6:33 am
[...] the Library of Congress has placed a few thousands of their pictures on flickr. From: http://www.loc.gov/blog/?p=233 “[…] If all goes according to plan, the project will help address at least two major [...]
January 29th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
[...] Library of Congress degli Stati Uniti (wiki), seconda biblioteca più fornita al mondo, ha pubblicato il 3 gennaio scorso più di 3000 foto su Flickr. Gli scatti sono divisi in due categorie: una serie [...]
January 30th, 2008 at 9:12 am
[...] Colecţii de biblioteca pe Flickr Posted on ianuarie 30, 2008 by marinpruteanu Flickr este un bine cunoscut site pentru partajarea de fotografii între membri. Biblioteca Congresului a inceput sa-si valorifice o colecţie de fotografii chiar în acest loc: http://flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/ Până în acest moment sunt 3115 fotografii. Proiectul este prezentat şi în Library of Congress Blog. [...]
January 30th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
[...] photos, which have no known copyright restrictions.� For more information about this project, see this recent entry in the Library of Congress Blog.� Currently, there are 1500 photos� in a set called� “News in the 1910s” and 1615 [...]
January 30th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Amerika im Krieg (1939-1944)
Die amerikanische Library Of Congress (LoC) ist eine der grössten Bibliotheken der Welt, und zugleich die Nationalbibliothek der USA. Vor allem das Fotoarchiv mit 12 Millionen Exemplaren gibt der Geschichte des Landes ein Gesicht.
Nur ist es nicht je…
January 31st, 2008 at 11:41 am
[...] Library of Congress has a flickr page! Trust me. Much cooler than it may sound upon first [...]
January 31st, 2008 at 4:59 pm
It is such a wonderful idea to make these photos available online to those of us who may never make it to the Library of Congress. I hope eventually the entire Library collection, including photos, video, etc. will be digitized and put online in an interactive format such as that provided by Flickr.
February 1st, 2008 at 2:43 am
[...] a fan of vintage or retro fashions like I am, I urge you to take a peek, or check out the Library of Congress blog for more info on this amazing [...]
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:42 am
[...] Photos from the LOC Posted February 3, 2008 My favourite photo from the� Library of Congress - Flickr collection of copyright-free historical [...]
February 4th, 2008 at 12:18 am
[...] The Library of Congress has put some of their photos on Flickr where anyone can tag, add a note or comment to any photo - [...]
February 10th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
[...] der Library of Congress auf Flickr � Library of Congress Blog (1, 2) & FAQ, BoingBoing, Undercurrent (1, 2), Netzpolitik und [...]
February 10th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
[...] is making the rounds, but it is really cool to see 3,000 Library of Congress images on Flickr. The logic by which they are approaching this project is similar to the UMW Centennial images we have made available on [...]
February 11th, 2008 at 10:40 am
its nice to see the post and game over fliker .Last year I wrote about the possibilities of crowdsourcing photo archives, so I was happy to learn that the Library of Congress is giving it a go
February 11th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
[...] The first couple of collections come from the Library of Congress. [...]
February 11th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
I have one concern about what you said about people adding bibliographic information to photos. How can you verify that captions added to photos are correct? Some users might think they know something about a photo and turn out to be wrong.
February 19th, 2008 at 4:09 am
[...] presents 10 myths aboot Canadian health care ∞ Attention photoshoppers: the Library of Congress now has a Flickr page ∞ JFK’s old speechwriter, Ted Sorensen, has a warm fuzzy about Obama ∞ America’s [...]
February 19th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Very good idea making these photos available online. The web helps people communicate over great distances. Might as well make the most of it.
February 22nd, 2008 at 3:41 pm
It’s nice that these images are going up on flickr, but I’m disappointed that the Library of Commons chose to partner with Flickr instead of the non-profit Wikimedia Commons, which is doing amazing things for the sharing of knowledge online.
February 25th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
[...] http://www.loc.gov/blog/?p=233 [...]
February 28th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
[...] extravaganza for tomorrow’s tech podcast.� We’ll have a podcast exclusive interview on the pilot project the Library of Congress has undertaken with Flickr.� � Cool [...]
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:14 am
This is so wonderful to see. The Library of Congress has such a vast collection of rich and vibrant pictures available. It will be so beneficial to have such easy access to that excellent resource.
Keep up the great work!
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:23 pm
[...] My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven (Library of Congress [...]
March 4th, 2008 at 1:16 am
[...] For now it’s a pilot project of about 1500 photos, but hopefully this will be greatly extended in future.You can read more at Flickr, and the Library of Congress blog. [...]
March 7th, 2008 at 11:42 am
I would love to see hi rez photographs too. Regardless, this is a terrific initiative, one that will benefit everyone.
March 10th, 2008 at 5:49 am
[...] Fuente: Blog de la Biblioteca del Congreso de los Estados Unidos (16/1/2008) [...]
March 11th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
[...] die Library of Congress hat sich in ihrem Blog zu diesem Projekt geäußert. Sie möchte mit Hilfe der Tags den Zugang zu ihren Sammlungen [...]
March 14th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Matt: All of the images link back to the Library’s online catalog, which does indeed offer high-res downloads.
March 16th, 2008 at 4:00 am
[...] is very promising - the Library of Congress is starting to add its archives to [...]
March 16th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
I agree with Matt.
“I would love to see hi rez photographs too. Regardless, this is a terrific initiative, one that will benefit everyone.?
Kristal Rosebrook
March 17th, 2008 at 11:58 am
[...] here’s something you many have seen back in January. The Library of Congress has started a pilot program to publish their photo archives on Flickr. The [...]
March 20th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
[...] the fact that we have added some additional photos to our Flickr account. (See our previous posts here and here.) Which suits me just fine; we love all Library [...]
March 31st, 2008 at 12:55 am
Congress has started a pilot program to publish their photo archives on Flickr.
April 3rd, 2008 at 5:32 pm
[...] there is great reader interest in the “Flickr project,” I wanted to let everyone know that a webcast from a couple of months ago detailing the [...]
April 7th, 2008 at 2:54 am
[...] Library of Congress Blog wird auf einen Webcast mit� George Oates von Flickr zum Flickr Projekt hingewiesen. Tags:Uncategorized, Flickr, George Oates, Library of [...]
April 14th, 2008 at 11:46 am
[...] Library of Congress blog on their use of Flickr. [...]
April 16th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
[...] images to a blog or website, saving server space, since the images are stored on Flickr.com. This Library of Congress Blog post is one example.So if you have a digital camera and/or digital images files to share, why wait? [...]
April 19th, 2008 at 12:57 am
[...] Library of Congress’ experiment with flickr is, I think, an outreach method as well as an experiment with social tagging and identification. [...]
April 23rd, 2008 at 1:55 pm
I was disappointed to learn from an earlier comment that the Childrens’ Internet Protection Act has resulted in a ban on all of Flickr. Rather than mirroring, perhaps the underlying problem with the legislation or with its implementation should be fixed…
May 14th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
[...] For more information about this pilot project, see Library of Congress Blog - My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven http://www.loc.gov/blog/?p=233 [...]
May 18th, 2008 at 2:40 am
Great news and congrats on the new launch. Who’d have thought you would come up with this great idea to make your images more accessible to the public!
May 21st, 2008 at 9:21 am
Congrats on the launch. LC is the second (that we know of) library to work with Flickr. The National Library of Australia and their Picture Australia project has offered a Flickr section for a couple of years. We’ve posted about it on ResourceShelf.
May 28th, 2008 at 10:23 am
[...] of early baseball, amateur boxers, retired steel workers, etc). � Here’s an interesting LOC blog about the project. Vietnam Wall Project Visitors can zero in on a particular name on the Wall and [...]
May 29th, 2008 at 3:13 am
Congrats on the launch. Thanks for access to great images.
May 30th, 2008 at 10:52 am
[...] note (speaking of our history), the Library of Congress has begun asking for our help with the “Commons Project” on Flickr. They’re posting collections on Flickr asking and hoping for identifying [...]
June 12th, 2008 at 11:54 am
[...] Thursday, 17 January, 2008 · 1 Comment Flickr: The Commons Thanks to The Shifted Librarian for highlighting this new project which brings together Flickr and the Library of Congress. There are links to more information on the Shifted Librarian post but my favourite part is this quote from the Library of Congress blog post My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven [...]
June 17th, 2008 at 2:38 am
[...] June 17, 2008 · No Comments On April 8, 2008, Powerhouse Museum based out of Sydney, Australia, released their publicly-held historical photographs for access on Flickr, becoming the first museum in the world to do so. Earlier on Jan 16, 2008, the Library of Congress had released over 3000 photos on Flickr. [...]
June 17th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
[...] wonderfully innovative fan of the Library’s pilot project with Flickr photos decided to restage a World War II-era photo for the modern day, at the same [...]
June 24th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
I really enjoy this photostream. I posted a comment on another post about it, but I think it is better suited here. I just wanted to comment on how much I enjoyed looking at the photos on the LOC Flickr. There is a lot of diversity in the images, I really enjoyed looking at them. I really enjoy looking at old photos like that. I like to picture myself if I lived at that time and was at the location the photo was taken. It’s surreal. I really enjoyed it, thank you.
June 26th, 2008 at 8:06 am
[...] 26 juin 2008 Il y a 5 mois, la Bibliothèque du Congrès lançait un partenarait avec Flickr [...]
June 26th, 2008 at 8:08 am
[...] 5 months ago, The Library of Congress launched a new kind of partnership with Flickr : [...]
July 1st, 2008 at 10:50 am
[...] of Congress Blog.� They’ve even partnered with flickr.� Check out the cool old photo of America’s [...]
July 1st, 2008 at 11:36 am
This is so cool that you all are doing this. What a win-win for all of us. (Plus great choice for the top pic you included in this post!) I’m glad the LOC is embracing our Web 2.0 world and allowing more people to more easily access your treasure trove of photos.
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:34 am
[...] old news now - over a week since the original announcement on the Library of Congress blog - but we’re excited about the partnership between the LoC and [...]
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:57 am
I LOVE flickr and I love this stream, for sure. One of my favorite things about flickr is just randomming through; sometimes I end up on family pictures, once I landed upon the christmas party for some business loan office group, and i especially love it when i happen upon people’s wedding portraits!
July 21st, 2008 at 10:31 pm
[...] Library of Congress definitely sees the promise in the new partnership. Not only do they get to share their collection with a larger audience, but they get to tap into the [...]
August 2nd, 2008 at 7:26 am
This is so cool that you all are doing this. What a win-win for all of us. (Plus great choice for the top pic you included in this post!) I’m glad the LOC is embracing our Web 2.0 world and allowing more people to more easily access your treasure trove of photos.
September 9th, 2008 at 3:12 am
[...] the Flickr community. I quickly happened upon a short article on the Library of Congress website [here] from earlier this year. From the article: “…the project will help address at least two [...]
September 18th, 2008 at 6:39 am
[...] (for the Library of Congress) and he blogs about different things. Earlier this year, he blogged about the Library of Congress putting images up on Flickr. I didn’t really pay much attention to it, at first, because the pictures that he chose to [...]
September 23rd, 2008 at 1:33 pm
I hope those working on this project consider presenting at the American Association for History and Computing Conference being held online. It will be all about Web 2.0.
September 24th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
[...] here’s something you many have seen back in January. The Library of Congress has started a pilot program to publish their photo archives on Flickr. The [...]
September 25th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
If you wan to read more about this you can read a blog post by David Weinberger or go directly to the original post.
October 16th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Flickr has been a great help to my web design business.It helps my company provide affordable seo to our clients by letting us share client pictures with trackback URLS. Good stuff
October 21st, 2008 at 4:26 am
[...] Library of Congress is een samenwerkingsverband met Flickr aangegaan. De Amerikaanse bibliotheek heeft ruim 3.100 foto’s op Flickr geplaatst [...]
October 27th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
[...] de kennis van de fotocollecties uit te breiden. Onder meer de grootste bibliotheek ter wereld, de Library of Congress, het vooruitstrevende Australische Powerhouse Museum en het Canadese Musée McCord Museum - dat [...]
November 4th, 2008 at 10:49 am
One of my favorite things about flickr is just randomming through; sometimes I end up on family pictures, once I landed upon the christmas party for some business loan office group, and i especially love it when i happen upon people’s wedding portraits!
November 11th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
What a wonderful idea. We use photos from Flicker on out sites, a great source and super website.
November 28th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
I’ve been using the American Memory site for years. My students have turned out some great multimedia projects with LOC images. And I’ve been able to illustrate History lessons with images not found in textbooks. This new partnership with Flicker makes accessibility that much easier. Truly, our national treasures are being shared with the people.
December 9th, 2008 at 12:06 am
Truly a great idea. Flickr is by and large the best resouce for photo sharing on the internet. The only comparable (albeit slightly more popular) site is facebook, which has too many privacy restrictions to facilitate any collaborative sharing.
December 11th, 2008 at 2:19 am
[...] Commons was launched on January 16 2008, with a pilot project in partnership with The Library of Congress. Events of the last year have provided a wonderful opportunity to consider how institutions deal [...]