photo management

with flickr

cindi farmerARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

Whose job is it anyway?

the journey

“…back in the 1900s”

Digital 1.0: organize by categories

Digital 1.0: folders + database/excel

Digital 1.0: searching with Bridge

DAM: digital asset management

Web 2.0 Expo

Matt JonesUI Designer, NokiaLondon, England

Kelly GotoGoto MediaPalo Alto, CA

Chris MessinaFlock

Mike BeltznerPhenomenologistMozilla

Everything was private

Justifications to Legal

1. Flickr allows you to maintain “All Rights Reserved.”

2.  Will put ASU’s best images into the public realm.

3.  Save ASU resources (both money and time).

Plus…..

“..everyone else is doing it”http://www.flickr.com/photos/theohiostateuniversity/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/universityofnebraska/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/cambridgeuniversity/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/uwf/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/universityofkansas/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/tsuphotos/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/miamiuniversity/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/universityofkentucky/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/unibirmingham/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/oregonstateuniversity/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/iowastateadmissions/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/cuaa/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/westernillinoisuniversity/Plus several hundred more….

Time-consuming to browse folders- Photos may belong to multiple categories- sometimes had to rely on colleagues’

memory

Photo requests took a lot of our time/bandwidth- Hunting for the photos- Emailing / ftp / dropbox- Also produces a resistance/delay in sharing

Separate photo libraries with little sharing- didn’t know what was in each other’s

library- Took more time to get hi-rez version

Easier for our team to search photos - browse categories - search keywords

Culture of openness & sharing in the community

- Easier for us- Easier for them- Increased whuffie / connection

Separate photo libraries, but with numerous connections to other library

- Have control over who sees what- Can see recently uploaded images- Can download hi-rez right off flickr- More bang for our buck

searching

sharing

connecting

then & now

come on in the water’s fine

1 Get a flickr account.

Its’ free (2 videos and 300mb per month)

or practically free ($25/yr = unlimited + hirez)

private

2 Start uploading photos.

Mode: RGB Size: Hi-rez

How:

private

3 Add titles & descriptions.

public

private

private

4 Set permissions & settings

5 Tag photosFor “searchers”

Naming conventions: General descriptors (laptop, ) Categories (spirit, students, research) School/College Location/Campus Photographer’s name Name of file

6 Create sets & collections

7 Share and Connect

8 Embed & Distribute

time investment

Tips on time

• Batch uploading/tagging• Divide and conquer• Working sessions • Student workers

nice surprises

culture

future uses?

design connections

thanks.

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