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7 Responses to “More Photos in Flickr”

1. Bob Meade Says:
   March 21st, 2008 at 10:13 pm

   I agree the Flickr community project is a great idea and producing excellent results. When following your link to Library’s Prints and Photographs Online Catalog and entering search for “Flickr” I could see several examples where updates are credited as being initiated by the project, however it was sometimes difficult to determine precisely the “before” and “after” status. In some cases I had to go to Flickr, search for the image and then follow the Flickr comments thread to see what change had been suggested and accepted from the Flickr community.

   I recommend that both the possibly inaccurate original catalog information be retained and reflected as such along with displaying the information which has been suggested by the Flickr project.

   My reasons are:

   1. Keeping the original information can record misconceptions and inaccuracies which were true to the period when the information was orriginally recorded. This has historical value in itself.

   2. Inaccuracies can flow from the Flickr community too. Some Flickr users are citing a variety of online resources to back up their claims including Wikipedia. Now, don’t get me wrong - I like Wikipedia and use it every day. But it is prone to errors, particularly of a historical nature, and particularly relating to biographical information of historical figures. I have not found any such errors in information cited by Flickr project contributors thus far however.
   Should you want some undetected examples of errors in Wikipedia itself, I can give you a few of those but that’s not the purpose of your blog.

   All in all, keep up the good work with this exciting project.

2. Tracy Says:
   March 25th, 2008 at 10:22 pm

   Matt,

   What is the usage policy of those photos ?
   ” if you are interested in high-res versions of the images, simply follow the link in each individual Flickr photo back to its corresponding image in the.. ”

   Thanks
   Tracy

3. Søren Kjær Vestergaard Says:
   March 28th, 2008 at 7:26 am

   Some weeks ago me and my wife enter the Ellis Island database and found a family member that immigrated from Denmark til USA in 1921. Since our visit at the online service I´d got mails from the The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation to support their sevice which we are planning to do. Reading about Flickr at this blog is helpful. I think the service from Flickr can be used by The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation to widen the database and make it more inexpensive to run. Now I just have to figure out how the to great services can achieve from each other.

4. Bilim Haberleri Says:
   March 28th, 2008 at 8:51 am

   Thank

5. Matt Raymond Says:
   April 7th, 2008 at 6:18 pm

   Tracy: For all the images we are putting on Flickr, there are “no known copyright restrictions.”

6. Asia'h Epperson Says:
   April 15th, 2008 at 10:46 pm

   Matt,

   Thanks for the photos and usage info.

7. The TASI Lightbox » Blog Archive » Steady increase in cultural heritage institutions sharing images on Flickr Says:
   August 21st, 2008 at 9:05 am

   [...] The Powerhouse Museum have even started displaying the tags (keywords) added by Flickr users to records in their own online catalogue. In a similar vein, the Library of Congress has modified a number of its records in light of information provided by Flickr users. [...]

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