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About Flickr Commons
In this group:
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:
1,936 photos | 1,728 members | 16 Dec 08
Discussions
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Welcome 3 new members of The Commons today
4 replies 26 hours ago
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3,000,000 views on Flickr Commons!
7 replies 26 hours ago
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Welcome 5 new members to the Commons!
5 replies 2 days ago
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Future sets from Library of Congress -- glad to have partners & Theme ideas
1 replies 7 days ago
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Happy Birthday, Frank Lloyd Wright! (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959)
1 replies 2 weeks ago
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Impact of Flickr changes across the Commons?
74 replies 2 weeks ago
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Do the institutions that make up the Commons not have some lobbying power?
1 replies 4 weeks ago
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Getty Voices: Be a Photograph Sleuth
5 replies 6 weeks ago
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11 replies 6 weeks ago
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Digital Public Library and Europeana
4 replies 2 months ago
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Price Information Included with Commons Images
2 replies 2 months ago
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Personal connections in the Commons
58 replies 2 months ago
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Happy Birthday, Albert Einstein! (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955)
1 replies 3 months ago
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4 replies 3 months ago
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Happy Birthday, Yuri Gagarin! (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968)
0 replies 3 months ago
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Curators picking the best of The Commons
2 replies 4 months ago
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Drawings, watercolours, prints - a new set on Flickr Commons
5 replies 4 months ago
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‘There has been a change of government.’ - 100 Years Ago Today
1 replies 4 months ago
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100 Years Ago Today, 5,000 Women ..
2 replies 4 months ago
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Happy Birthday, Ansel Adams! (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984
0 replies 4 months ago
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