The document discusses how Flickr and other Web 2.0 technologies can be applied to digital libraries. It notes how Flickr allows images to be tagged and shared along with user comments. It suggests that digital libraries could benefit by adopting practices like user-contributed tags, APIs, and embedding content from other sites using feeds. The document advocates applying social software principles to engage users in contributing content and enriching information.
Web 2.0 and the Digital Library -or- Learning from Flickr
1. web 2.0 and the digital library or learning from flick r steve lawson, humanities librarian colorado college, colorado springs <slawson@coloradocollege.edu> <http://stevelawson.name/seealso/>
11. sunset, blooms, ocean, beach, tide pools, plage, oc éan Half Moon Bay, HMB, Earth Day Into the Sun, HDR, wide angle, 24mm 500plus20, top-f25 Earth Day Embrace by jurvetson on Flickr