Interested Public is Interested -Using Flickr to Put Collection Assets Online
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•Founded in 2004•> 4 billion images•Features
• an active user community•advanced statistics tracking•easy ways to organize content•plenty of external tools available
• 14 million images within the P&P
• 8,374 images on Flickr
• No known copyright restrictions
• One full-time staff member
• By October 2008, 10.4 million views
67,176 tags added by users by October, 2008
Types of tags:•Descriptive words•Subject words•Emotional/aesthetic responses•Personal knowledge/research•Geotags•Variant forms (wwii, World War II, etc)
• 7,166 user comments on around 3000 images
• Comments mirrored types of tags
• Core group of 20-30 “power commenters” enhance information
• Only 25 comments needed to be removed or moderated
• Lots of dialogue between users as they discuss the content
• Increased awareness of LOC materials
• Increased hits from search engines
• Users tend to search for materials on Mondays
• People responded positively when asked directly for help
• 10,000 images for 25,000 museum, library, and archival materials
• 2,295 images available on Flickr
• Publish using a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike license
• Links back to our website and online database catalog
• Increase access to collections
• Curated, narrative approach, like an online exhibition
• Currently focused on archival and library materials
• 9 sets currently available
• Increase access to archival collections
• Uncurated, using currently-available collection descriptions
• Not limited to photographs
• 36 sets currently available
• Only one object set currently
• Most popular image
• Direct emotional impact
• Variety of tools available, including MemoryMiner and Flickr Uploader
• Input information into data fields, including description, title, and links back to website
• If images have embedded metadata, some software can read it and use it in export