College of Information and Computer Science, Long Island University
Historical photographs spanning from the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia to last year’s Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall are now available to the public. In June, the Smithsonian Institution joined the Powerhouse Museum, the Brooklyn Museum and the Library of Congress on Flickr Commons, a photo-sharing website.
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Published by April 6th, 2008
in tagging, collections, applications, Flickr and collaboration.
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Tagcow is a newly launched photo tagging service that is generating a lot of buzz for the way it categorizes photos, allowing people to quickly find their favorite images of family members, pets, natural landmarks and more. Basically, it makes massive numbers of photos housed on Flickr or in a personal photo folder easily searchable by what appears in the photo.
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Published by February 25th, 2008
in Library of Congress and Flickr.
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Museum 2.0 writes. “About a month ago, the Library of Congress put two sets of photographs (about 3000 images total) up on Flickr. Flickr is a photo-sharing site (learn more here). They didn’t put them up the way you or I put up photos of the family hoe-down; they worked with Flickr for about six months as part of Flickr Commons, a hopefully growing initiative to connect public image collections with this hugely popular photo-sharing and tagging site. Plenty have blogged about the initiative, but what I’m most interested in are the results, and what it means for the way we share collections with visitors both online and onsite.”
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Published by January 20th, 2008
in Library of Congress and Flickr.
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Flickr has unveiled a new project, dubbed The Commons, which will give Flickr members an opportunity to browse and tag photos from Library of Congress archives. The goal is to create what Flickr likes to call an “organic information system,” in other words, a searchable database of tags that makes it easier for researchers to find images. The pilot project features a small sampling of the Library of Congress’ some 14 million images. For now you’ll find two collections. The first is called “American Memory: Color photographs from the Great Depression” and features color photographs of the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection including “scenes of rural and small-town life, migrant labor, and the effects of the Great Depression.”
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