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.
8. 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
17. Over 1 million digital records,
looking for a “Web 2.0” partner
18. Why choose Flickr?
★ 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
47. 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.”
48.
49. crpascasio says:
“is is the inside of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond vault
located on 9th and Franklin Street.”
50.
51. 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.”
83. 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?
102. 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.”
103. 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.”
104. 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.”
105. ★ Transcription
★ Photo format/technology
★ Timeframes
★ Creator name
★ Subjects: based on the image
★ ings in the image that weren't in the record - quot;yellowquot;, quot;applequot; etc
★ Transcription of signs
★ Commentary - quot;dapper”
★ Humour - quot;UFO”
★ Checking a source, cross-referenced
★ Expanding context - quot;LA Bombing”
★ Emotional responses - quot;Wow”
★ Machine tags
★ Geo
★ Variants
★ Non-english
106.
107. 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 quot;rightquot;
One photo can go quot;multi-purposequot;, to serve
different people
- Helena Zinkham
Acting Chief of the Library of C Prints & Photographs Catalog