Happy birthday to @flickrfdn@glammr.us - the biggest, best archive of no-restriction, public domain photos on the web, with over 100 participating institutions, including the #LibraryOfCongress!

https://www.flickr.com/commons

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  • Cory Doctorow@mamot.frOP
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    10 months ago

    The Flickr Foundation is structured as a 501©3 nonprofit, with an ambitious, 100-year plan to catalog, safeguard, and make available a vast trove of images that belong to all of us.

    They are taking the “access” part seriously - making sure that the competing priorities of “getting and storing everything” and “letting everyone use everything” don’t come down on the side of a vast, musty archive that no one sees - and no one defends when it’s on the chopping block.

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    • Cory Doctorow@mamot.frOP
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      10 months ago

      They take the “access” part seriously - making sure the competing priorities of “getting and storing everything” and “letting everyone use everything” don’t come down on the side of a musty archive that no one sees - and no one defends when it’s on the chopping block.

      You can search Flickr for millions of CC images, but these come with strings attached (attribution and follow-on licensing). The Commons, OTOH, is entirely free to use. Search for yourself!

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      • Flickr Foundation@glammr.us
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        10 months ago

        @pluralistic@mamot.fr Thanks friend. It’s been a fun birthday so far. We built a new front end to Flickr Commons content so people can play around more with the data. Just a day of wonders all around.

        Here are a few nerdy librarian deeper dives into some of our photos.