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Library of Congress Flickr Pilot



    A Picture is Worth … 75 tags
        (and so much more!)

Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0
            Community on Flickr


           David Reser, Library of Congress
            NELINET Conference, November 14, 2008
Library of Congress Flickr Pilot




           “Women Enlisting – England”
Bain News Service, publisher, [between 1910 and 1915]

       http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163930482/
Library of Congress Flickr Pilot
Library of Congress Flickr Pilot


Project Goals:

• To share photographs from the Library’s collections with people
who enjoy images but might not visit the Library’s own Web site

• To gain a better understanding of how social tagging and
community input could benefit both the Library and users of the
collections

• To gain experience participating in Web communities that are
interested in the kinds of materials in the Library’s collections
Library of Congress Flickr Pilot


Principles:

• Content used in the pilot must be already available on the
Library’s Web site.

• Any agreement to place content on a non-LC site must be non-
exclusive.

• Access to the Library’s content must be free.

• An option to control or entirely exclude advertising on the account
was preferred.
Library of Congress Flickr Pilot

Principles:

• The Library should be clearly identified as the source of the
content.

• The site must allow the Library to remove and moderate user-
supplied content to ensure that inappropriate material, if found,
could be promptly removed.

• The material uploaded by the Library must be clearly
distinguishable from any non-Library generated content.

• It must be possible to accurately convey the copyright status of
the material.
What’s Flickr?
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
What’s Flickr?
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
Warm Reception for Old Photos
First 9 months with 4,615 Library of Congress photos:
     10.5 million views (as of Oct. 28, 2008)
     34,000 favorites
     15,000 Flickr members made LOC a contact
     7,000 comments (2,500 people)
     14,400 unique tags (67,000 total)
     500 catalog records updated
     20% increased traffic to P&P Online Catalog

     Downloads of Bain image files placed on Flickr rose approximately 60%
   for the period January-May 2008, compared to the same time period in
   2007
     Downloads of FSA/OWI image files placed on Flickr rose
   approximately 13%
User-Generated Information:
        Comments
Personal Experience Adds Info




Sylvia Sweets Tea Room, corner of School
Street in industrial town in Massachusetts and Main
streets, Brockton, Mass. Photo by Jack Delano, 1940-1.
Historical Context - Discussed
Negro boy near Cincinnati, Ohio. Photo by John Vachon, 1942-3
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163452890/
Fan mail + History
Auto Polo. Bain News Service, 1912
Then & Now Photos




http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2179042198/
Then & Now Photos




http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2179918784/
Using Notes to Focus Within a Photo




http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2332832827   /
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
User-Generated Information:
           Tags
Tags in Many Languages




http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163460290   /
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
Types of Tags
I. LC description-based (words copied from the Library-provided record): e.g., titles, names, subjects, etc.

II. New descriptive words (words not present in the Library-provided description):
       – Place: e.g., cities, counties, countries, natural feature names
       – Format (physical characteristics of the original photos). Sample tags: LF, large format, black and white, bw,
       transparencies, glass plate
       – Photographic technique. Sample tags: shallow depth of field
       –Time period. Sample tags: wartime, WWII, 1912
       –Creator name: e.g., photographer’s name

III. New subject words
       –Image (items seen in the image itself). Sample tags: cables, trees, apples, windows, hat, yellow
       –Associations/symbolism (phrases and slogans evoked by the image). Sample tags: Rosie the riveter, Norman
       Rockwell, We can do it!
       –Commentary (revealing the tagger’s value judgments). Sample tags: Sunday best, proud, dapper, vintage.
       –Transcription (transcribing words found in items such as signs, posters, etc., within the photo)
       –Topic (terms that convey the topic of the photo). Sample tags: architecture, navy, baseball, story
       –Humor (tags intended to be humorous rather than descriptive) Sample tags: UFO, flying saucer

IV. Emotional/aesthetic responses: (personal reactions of the tagger). Sample tags: wow, pretty, ugly,
controversial

V. Personal knowledge/research (tags that could only have been added based on knowledge or research by the
tagger, and that could not have been gleaned solely from the description provided or examination of the photo): For
example, the tag murder used on a portrait of someone who was later murdered or tags added for the specific county when
that information was not part of the description.

VI. Machine tags (added by the community not Library-supplied): e.g., geotags and Iconclass tags

VII. Variant forms (representing terms already tagged but in a different form, such as synonyms (e.g., WW2, WWII,
World War II, worldwarii) or plural/singular differences (e.g., transparency/transparencies)

VIII. Foreign language (tags in foreign languages/scripts, whether they are translations of English-language tags,
or new tags)

IX. Miscellaneous (tags that are not readily understood, that provide corrections to LC descriptions or to other
taggers (e.g., notpeaches), or tags later removed
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
[Al Palzer, boxer]
Note: Corrected title provided by Flickr Commons project, 2008
Library of Congress Flickr Pilot
Linking from PPOC to Flickr

                    Library Catalog
                    Note: Additional
                    information about
                    this photograph
                    might be available
                    through the Flickr
                    Commons project
                    http://www.flickr.c
                    om/photos/library_
                    of_congress/21783
                    31373
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
Conclusion
This project has allowed the Library to:

• Encourage discovery of historical photographs by presenting it in a venue that
heretofore had been focused on contemporary, personal photographs and increase
engagement with those materials

• Increase learning and stimulate an educational interest in history

• Foster the development of personal relationships with these materials as they are
shared, identified as favorites, and re-used in new creative ways

• Stimulate communication, not just between the public and the Library but also with
each other, using Library material as a catalyst to spark those conversations

• Tap into the expertise in the communities of interest developing on the Web and elicit
contributions that provide a richer experience for the users of the collections

• Collect user-centric, relevant terms that have the potential to increase retrieval of
Library material

• Learn by doing, and

• Surface issues related to presentation and engagement that can inform decisions
about the materials presented on the Library’s own Web site.
Library of Congress Flickr Pilot

Questions?

1. Library of Congress Flickr Account:
http://flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/

2. Pilot Project FAQs:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_pilot_faq.html

3. Webcast from the Flickr Project Team:
http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4281

4. Flickr Commons:
http://www.flickr.com/commons

                 Dave Reser, dres@loc.gov
Risks of Joining Web 2.0

Disrespect for collections (smart aleck chat)
Loss of meaning (authoritative, contextual info)
Reduced revenue from photo sales
Excludes undigitized collections
Higher costs (more money and time)
Less chance for us to have fun as history detectives
Benefits of Joining Web 2.0

Make collections available     (Core mission)
Gain information about collections
Increase the visibility of specific photos
Win support for cultural heritage organizations
Mix past & present for a better informed world
Join the fun … & more …
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr
A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr

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A Picture is Worth... 75 tags (and so much more!): Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr

  • 1. Library of Congress Flickr Pilot A Picture is Worth … 75 tags (and so much more!) Revealing Historical Photographs to the Web 2.0 Community on Flickr David Reser, Library of Congress NELINET Conference, November 14, 2008
  • 2. Library of Congress Flickr Pilot “Women Enlisting – England” Bain News Service, publisher, [between 1910 and 1915] http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163930482/
  • 3. Library of Congress Flickr Pilot
  • 4. Library of Congress Flickr Pilot Project Goals: • To share photographs from the Library’s collections with people who enjoy images but might not visit the Library’s own Web site • To gain a better understanding of how social tagging and community input could benefit both the Library and users of the collections • To gain experience participating in Web communities that are interested in the kinds of materials in the Library’s collections
  • 5. Library of Congress Flickr Pilot Principles: • Content used in the pilot must be already available on the Library’s Web site. • Any agreement to place content on a non-LC site must be non- exclusive. • Access to the Library’s content must be free. • An option to control or entirely exclude advertising on the account was preferred.
  • 6. Library of Congress Flickr Pilot Principles: • The Library should be clearly identified as the source of the content. • The site must allow the Library to remove and moderate user- supplied content to ensure that inappropriate material, if found, could be promptly removed. • The material uploaded by the Library must be clearly distinguishable from any non-Library generated content. • It must be possible to accurately convey the copyright status of the material.
  • 36. Warm Reception for Old Photos First 9 months with 4,615 Library of Congress photos: 10.5 million views (as of Oct. 28, 2008) 34,000 favorites 15,000 Flickr members made LOC a contact 7,000 comments (2,500 people) 14,400 unique tags (67,000 total) 500 catalog records updated 20% increased traffic to P&P Online Catalog Downloads of Bain image files placed on Flickr rose approximately 60% for the period January-May 2008, compared to the same time period in 2007 Downloads of FSA/OWI image files placed on Flickr rose approximately 13%
  • 38. Personal Experience Adds Info Sylvia Sweets Tea Room, corner of School Street in industrial town in Massachusetts and Main streets, Brockton, Mass. Photo by Jack Delano, 1940-1.
  • 39. Historical Context - Discussed Negro boy near Cincinnati, Ohio. Photo by John Vachon, 1942-3
  • 41. Fan mail + History Auto Polo. Bain News Service, 1912
  • 42. Then & Now Photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2179042198/
  • 43. Then & Now Photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2179918784/
  • 44. Using Notes to Focus Within a Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2332832827 /
  • 47. Tags in Many Languages http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163460290 /
  • 49. Types of Tags I. LC description-based (words copied from the Library-provided record): e.g., titles, names, subjects, etc. II. New descriptive words (words not present in the Library-provided description): – Place: e.g., cities, counties, countries, natural feature names – Format (physical characteristics of the original photos). Sample tags: LF, large format, black and white, bw, transparencies, glass plate – Photographic technique. Sample tags: shallow depth of field –Time period. Sample tags: wartime, WWII, 1912 –Creator name: e.g., photographer’s name III. New subject words –Image (items seen in the image itself). Sample tags: cables, trees, apples, windows, hat, yellow –Associations/symbolism (phrases and slogans evoked by the image). Sample tags: Rosie the riveter, Norman Rockwell, We can do it! –Commentary (revealing the tagger’s value judgments). Sample tags: Sunday best, proud, dapper, vintage. –Transcription (transcribing words found in items such as signs, posters, etc., within the photo) –Topic (terms that convey the topic of the photo). Sample tags: architecture, navy, baseball, story –Humor (tags intended to be humorous rather than descriptive) Sample tags: UFO, flying saucer IV. Emotional/aesthetic responses: (personal reactions of the tagger). Sample tags: wow, pretty, ugly, controversial V. Personal knowledge/research (tags that could only have been added based on knowledge or research by the tagger, and that could not have been gleaned solely from the description provided or examination of the photo): For example, the tag murder used on a portrait of someone who was later murdered or tags added for the specific county when that information was not part of the description. VI. Machine tags (added by the community not Library-supplied): e.g., geotags and Iconclass tags VII. Variant forms (representing terms already tagged but in a different form, such as synonyms (e.g., WW2, WWII, World War II, worldwarii) or plural/singular differences (e.g., transparency/transparencies) VIII. Foreign language (tags in foreign languages/scripts, whether they are translations of English-language tags, or new tags) IX. Miscellaneous (tags that are not readily understood, that provide corrections to LC descriptions or to other taggers (e.g., notpeaches), or tags later removed
  • 52. [Al Palzer, boxer] Note: Corrected title provided by Flickr Commons project, 2008
  • 53. Library of Congress Flickr Pilot
  • 54. Linking from PPOC to Flickr Library Catalog Note: Additional information about this photograph might be available through the Flickr Commons project http://www.flickr.c om/photos/library_ of_congress/21783 31373
  • 60. Conclusion This project has allowed the Library to: • Encourage discovery of historical photographs by presenting it in a venue that heretofore had been focused on contemporary, personal photographs and increase engagement with those materials • Increase learning and stimulate an educational interest in history • Foster the development of personal relationships with these materials as they are shared, identified as favorites, and re-used in new creative ways • Stimulate communication, not just between the public and the Library but also with each other, using Library material as a catalyst to spark those conversations • Tap into the expertise in the communities of interest developing on the Web and elicit contributions that provide a richer experience for the users of the collections • Collect user-centric, relevant terms that have the potential to increase retrieval of Library material • Learn by doing, and • Surface issues related to presentation and engagement that can inform decisions about the materials presented on the Library’s own Web site.
  • 61. Library of Congress Flickr Pilot Questions? 1. Library of Congress Flickr Account: http://flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/ 2. Pilot Project FAQs: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_pilot_faq.html 3. Webcast from the Flickr Project Team: http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4281 4. Flickr Commons: http://www.flickr.com/commons Dave Reser, dres@loc.gov
  • 62. Risks of Joining Web 2.0 Disrespect for collections (smart aleck chat) Loss of meaning (authoritative, contextual info) Reduced revenue from photo sales Excludes undigitized collections Higher costs (more money and time) Less chance for us to have fun as history detectives
  • 63. Benefits of Joining Web 2.0 Make collections available (Core mission) Gain information about collections Increase the visibility of specific photos Win support for cultural heritage organizations Mix past & present for a better informed world Join the fun … & more …