This was the first major presentation I've given about my new role as Founder and Exec Director of the Flickr Foundation. It was fun to open the day's proceedings, and I enjoyed chatting with people after the talk was done. See flickr.org for more information. We're just getting established!

1. Some rights reserved by garrettc
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George
Denise

2. User generated content
histories

3. 10th of February
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3,676 views
16 faves
6 comments

4. 10th of February, a bit earlier
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6. https://web.archive.org/web/20040402154822/http://flickr.com/help.gne
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7. Photo Sharing Gone Wild by Dan Tynan, PC World, June 2004
‘The emphasis is more on community than
celebrity.
Sharing photos is just another way of saying
“I’m strange. Are you strange? Let's be
strange together.”’

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9. fi
rst million
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10. about 50 billion

11. fi
rst million
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15. “He viewed the process of selling
photo-sharing service Flickr last
year, for example, as too pricey
and time-consuming, people
familiar with the matter said.”
Jan. 23, 2019
2022

16. “Mr. Gowrappan has halted some
efforts to sell brands within the
media business, opting instead to
shutter flagging brands or
services.”
“He viewed the process of selling
photo-sharing service Flickr last
year, for example, as too pricey
and time-consuming, people
familiar with the matter said.”
Jan. 23, 2019

17. Economic
pressure of
divesting.

34. ff
usion

35. Copies
Versions
Metadata about copies
Metadata about versions
Updates to copies
Updates to versions of copies
Updates to metadata about copies
Updates to updates of versions of copies
Updates to metadata about versions of copies
etc

36. Future 5 - Degradation

37. Deaccession in cultural
organisations is normal and
planned.

38. Read The Forgetting

41. The foundation will explore this
territory.

42. Data Lifeboat

43. CC-BY, The Museum of Finnish Coast Guard

44. Digital Day Book

47. Thank you 👋
glo@flickr.org / @ukglo
flickr.org / @flickrfdn

57. PROGRAM 3
CREATIVE ARCHIVES

59. Program 4:
NEW CURATORS

60. Flickr Commons
~1.8 million images

61. Creative Commons
~500 million images

63. The Rest
~50 BILLION
and growing

64. PROGRAM 1
FLICKR COMMONS

65. Flickr Commons
• Launched in 2008
• About 1.7 million pictures
• 113 cultural institutions
• “no known copyright restrictions”

66. Flickr Commons Institutions Joining by Year
0
10
20
30
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67. PROGRAM 2
CONTENT MOBILITY

68. Annotating
Viewing
Organising
Liking
Arranging
Copying
On Flickr
Before Flickr
After Flickr

69. Link

72. Digital land grabs

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