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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
The Commons Help us catalog the world’s public photo...
- The Library of Congress
The Library of Congress. 79K Followers•111 Following. 42,752...
- Participating Institutions
The Library of Congress. Rights Statement. The safest and...
- The Commons
🇺🇸. 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. View on flickr.com. Explore this collection.
- 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 Library has posted more than 40,000 free-to-use photos in the Flickr Commons. Here are some highlights.
Jan 16, 2019 · With 70,400 followers and 33,021 photos uploaded to Flickr, the Library of Congress continues to be one of the largest and most active accounts from The Commons catalog. To celebrate, they are sharing 11 photos related in some way to the number 11 to a new Flickr album focused on the 11th anniversary of The Commons.
