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Since launching in 2008 with the Library of Congress, the Flickr Commons has been sharing hidden treasures from the world’s photography archives, with over 100 members.
- The Commons
if you make use of a photo from the commons, you are...
- The Library of Congress
The Library of Congress. 79K Followers•111 Following. 42,752...
- Celebrating Flickr Commons
When Flickr launched The Commons on January 16, 2008, they...
- The Commons
42,752 photos. 482M views. Member since 2008. Last upload was. 2 days ago. 🇺🇸. Yes. We really are THE Library of Congress. We invited your tags and comments and you responded. Wow, did you respond! Thank You. The identifying information is appreciated--many of our old photos came to us with very little description. + See more. www.loc.gov.
- Reconnect with The Current Members
- Stuff We Should Just Do
- Alpha Work
- Policy Development
We’re still trying to connect with every Commons member. If you’re in the program and haven’t talked to us about all this yet, can you please reach out?
Add new Discovery layer and encourage contribution – commons.flickr.orglaunched Jan 2024Co-design granular, comparative, exportable stats – Flickr company launched improved statsin 2023Streamline onboarding to easily manage membership and participation – Slated for 2024Improve description tools for regular researchers – Slated for 2024These developments have emerged through our research as responses to changes in contemporary practice: 1. Develop content mobilitypolicy to facilitate more accessible movement of content and metadata 2. Co-design support for development of indigenous and dispossessed collections; formally adopt C.A.R.E. Principlesfor data governance 3. Launch Best ...
Everyone we interviewed was concerned about the lack of governance in the program. Cultural institutions have a long history of skilled governance, and it’s no surprise people were nervous about it lacking at Flickr. We saw the need for a collection development policy, because over the last decade, the program has sprawled out in various ways. 1. U...
The Flickr Commons was launched on January 16, 2008 with The Library of Congress as its first member. Since then, it has grown to a cohort of 100 international cultural heritage organizations from the very large to the very small.
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