The Commons on Filckr: a primer
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Hello. e Commons on Flickr: A Primer Rotterdam, Netherlands November 4, 2008
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This presentation was given by Georges Oates (Flickr) at the seminar Nationaal Archief joins Flickr the Commons on 4 November 2008 in Rotterdam. This project is part of the Dutch digitization project Images for the Future, www.imagesforthefuture.org.
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Hello.
e Commons on Flickr: A Primer
Rotterdam, NetherlandsNovember 4, 2008
Today
★ Quick Flickr overview★ Introduction to e Commons on Flickr★ e Nationaal Archief, 2 weeks in...★ Questions?
“A great place to be a photo.”
Born on February 10, 2004
e “Onion”
★ You Your photos, “sets”, tags etc
★ Contacts People you know, photographers you like
★ Groups ings you’re interested in, social groups
★ Explore Everything else, maps, cameras, search
Today…
★ 3 billion photos (as of yesterday!)★ 3 million uploads per day★ 82 million geotagged photos★ 25 million unique tags
#3,000,000,000
★ 47 million unique visitors a month★ 103 million visits a month★ 473 million minutes spent a month★ 30 million registered members
It’s made of people.
New audiences
e Commons on Flickr
Over 1 million digital records,looking for a “Web 2.0” partner
★ Designed specifically to browse and search photographs
★ An active, engaged community with a deep connection to photography
★ An infrastructure big enough to support hosting 2.8 billion photos
★ Available in 8 languages
Why choose Flickr?
But…
So…
No Known Copyright Restrictions
Wait a minute…
LaunchedJanuary 16, 2008
Why?
1) To increase access to public photography archives
Why?
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1) To increase access to public photography archives
Why?
1) To increase access to public photography archives2) To gather information about them
Why?
1) To increase access to public photography archives2) To gather information about them3) To share feedback with the institution & the web
Why?
So far…
Launched October 21, 2008!
“rosie the riveter”
9,000,000 views
swanq says:“A little more research and I think I know what's actually going on. e schoolboys are beating the bounds of the parish. See fullhomelydivinity.org/articles/rogation%20an d%20ascensio... which has pictures and a description of the tradition.”
crpascasio says:“is is the inside of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond vault located on 9th and Franklin Street.”
Heidi Donat says:“At the left in the far distance is the collapsed mudbrick Black Pyramid of Amenemhat III. In the center is the Bent Pyramid of Sneferu, father of Khufu. and at the right is the Red Pyramid, also built by Sneferu.”
Multilingual description
56 “faves”
100,000 views in a day
en & Now: Flickr/Google mashup by Paul Hagon
http://a.viary.com/artists/michael/images/sheperd_power
Noise
Signal
Feedback
Questions
• What does it mean for institutions to engage so directly in such an open communication channel?
• What sort of information has e Commons generated so far?
• What’s working? What’s not?
“Metadata creation has been democratized.”
- Clay Shirky
Any good?
Mayanaut says:“Unfortunately, many of the tags on this photo are incorrect. it is neither a Zeppelin, nor a dirigible. Barrage balloons were not manufactured by the Zeppelin company, nor did they utilize helium as their lifting gas.”
Mayanaut says:“I applaud the Library of Congress for allowing individuals to add tags, but in this case, such incorrect tags are merely contributing to historical inaccuracies.”
Azchael says:“@mayanaut: But you wrote a corrective statement, which means that a natural control mechanism is taking place and those interested find the right information.”
★ Transcription ★ Photo format/technology ★ Timeframes ★ Creator name ★ Subjects: based on the image ★ ings in the image that weren't in the record - "yellow", "apple" etc ★ Transcription of signs ★ Commentary - "dapper” ★ Humour - "UFO” ★ Checking a source, cross-referenced ★ Expanding context - "LA Bombing” ★ Emotional responses - "Wow” ★ Machine tags ★ Geo ★ Variants ★ Non-english
★ Historical authenticity in the Flickr context is not required
★ People say all kinds of things about the pictures
★ You can decide what comes back in to the catalogue, but not what's "right"
★ One photo can go "multi-purpose", to serve different people
★ - Helena Zinkham★ Acting Chief of the Library of C Prints & Photographs Catalog
Try a search for “flickr”
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e Nationaal Archief
Day 1: 122,514 views
Day 1: 122,514 viewsToday: 430,000 views
Signal
http://flickr.com/photos/blumpy/325853852/
Photo Credits
h*p://flickr.com/photos/baboon/405064021
h*p://flickr.com/photos/straup/201416382/h*p://flickr.com/photos/carthorse/340434797h*p://flickr.com/photos/motorboat4107/320693821/
h*p://flickr.com/photos/24223801@N08/3000000000/h*p://flickr.com/photos/lfcastro/471892144/h*p://flickr.com//library_of_congress/2179930812/
h*p://flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_house/2678364640/h*p://flickr.com/photos/library_of_virginia/2899343224/h*p://flickr.com/photos/brooklyn_museum/2674879228/
h*p://flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/2868980227/h*p://flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163497682/
h*p://flickr.com/photos/naJonalmariJmemuseum/2843695264/h*p://flickr.com/photos/naJonalmariJmemuseum/2842843325/h*p://flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/2898310107/
h*p://flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2178246585/h*p://flickr.com/photos/quatrosinko/367643300/h*p://flickr.com/photos/naJonaalarchief/2949035078/
h*p://flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/2968464894/h*p://flickr.com/photos/mikewebkist/2167059124/h*p://flickr.com/photos/aureusbay/297387489/
