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ninakuriloff (a group admin) says:
18 Jun 13 - Welcome to the Flickr Commons! We're bringing together the members of The Commons with Flickr users and staff in a space to celebrate, play with, and carry forward The Commons.

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Title Author Replies Latest Post
Welcome 3 new members of The Commons today Brenda Anderson 4 27 hours ago
3,000,000 views on Flickr Commons! Swedish National Heritage Board 7 27 hours ago
Welcome 5 new members to the Commons! Brenda Anderson 5 2 days ago
Future sets from Library of Congress -- glad to have partners & Theme ideas The Library of Congress 1 7 days ago
Happy Birthday, Frank Lloyd Wright! (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) ninakuriloff 1 2 weeks ago
Impact of Flickr changes across the Commons? whatsthatpicture 74 2 weeks ago

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About Flickr Commons

A place for the Commons Community to share and discuss the truly awesome collections being made available in the Flickr Commons

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Introductions

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About the Flickr Commons
(text from The Commons)

"The key goals of The Commons on Flickr are to firstly show you hidden treasures in the world's public photography archives, and secondly to show how your input and knowledge can help make these collections even richer.

You're invited to help describe the photographs you discover in The Commons on Flickr, either by adding tags or leaving comments."

"The Commons was launched on January 16 2008, when we released our pilot project in partnership with The Library of Congress. Both Flickr and the Library were overwhelmed by the positive response to the project! Thank you!

The program has two main objectives:

1. To increase access to publicly-held photography collections, and
2. To provide a way for the general public to contribute information and knowledge. (Then watch what happens when they do!)"




The Group Pool

Members of the Flickr Commons group are welcome to post images if they relate to images in the pools of Participating Institutions.

Do you have a mash-up or collage that you made from Commons' photos?

Do you have a photo that helps explain an image in the Commons?

Perhaps a "then and now"?

If you could add a html link to the Commons image or the discussion thread they pertain to, that would be excellent.

If you'd like to see some examples of how other people are linking their photos to the Commons, have a look in our many threads and check out some of the projects going on there.


Please do not use the pool simply to promote unrelated images from your stream; but please do show us how you interact with the Commons.



The Blog
If you want to keep an overview of what's going on in The Commons, as well as some of the projects being created in this group have a look at the blog:

http://www.indicommons.org

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