Flickr Feasibility Study

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Initial Barriers

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We want to join the Flickr Commons…

… and so does everyone else. Photo by Lingaraj, used under a CC,

Use with Attribution License

The National Archives Model

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Creative Commons Licensing Free Use with Attribution

Flickr Pro Account

Collaborators 5 Collaborating Institutions:

•  Flora Public Library –  Charles Overstreet Collection

•  Indiana University –  Charles W. Cushman Collection

•  Illinois Digital Archive (as an intermediary) –  Mining & Mother Jones in Mount Olive (Mount Olive Public Library) –  Springfield Aviation Company Archives (Lincoln Library)

•  University of Tennessee –  From Pi Beta Phi to Arrowmont

•  University of Washington (for collaborative digital projects) –  Olympic Peninsula Community Museum (9 sub-collections) –  King County Snapshots (11 sub-collections)

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Lessons learned from negotiations

•  Meeting Institutions’ Needs – Attribution – Assertion of Commercial Rights – Guarantee of Content Control

•  What can be uploaded vs. What cannot •  Batch Deletion – on demand

•  Feedback and Collaboration – Providing sufficient metadata: what, where,

when – Prioritizing specific topical strengths for

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IMLS DCC photostream

Charles Overstreet

Charles Overstreet

Charles W. Cushman

Chicagoland

San Francisco

Ringling Brothers’

Circus

Vintage Automobiles

New York

Springfield Aviation Co.

Arch.

Springfield Aviation Co.

Arch.

Mining & Mother Jones in Mt. Olive

Mining & Mother Jones in Mt. Olive

From Pi Beta Phi to

Arrowmont

From Pi Beta Phi to

Arrowmont

Olympic Peninsula VCM

Clallam County Historical Society

King County Snapshots

Wing Luke Asian Museum

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Organization

•  7 collections •  11 photosets •  1,716 photographs

Flickr’s Collection Level

Flickr’s Photoset (Sub-Collection) Level

Presentation Matters!

•  Address the needs of collaborating institutions

•  Desire to avoid using metadata that looks “institutionalized”

•  Desire to promote the addition of user generated content (tags and comments)

•  Desire to avoid making the user scroll down the browser screen to read all of the information

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Metadata Mapping Decisions

The Upload Process

•  Downloading images •  Parsing harvested metadata

–  dc:title, dc:description, dc:creator, dc:coverage •  Using Flickr API Methods

– Authentication –  Image & Initial Metadata Upload (Title,

Description, Creator, Rights & Branding) – Set Date – Add Tags (“IMLS DCC”, Temporal, Spatial) – Set Permissions – Set License

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Statistics (as of 5/3/10)

• Views of Photos - 15,086 • Views of the Photostream - 1,786

• Views of Sets - 2,243 • Views of Collections - 62

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Total views over time

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1st Cushman

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4th Overstreet upload; Springfield Aviation Co. Arch.

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Ringling Brothers’ Circus upload

Sowing Culture blogpost on Ringling Bros. Circus

WebWise

Olympic Peninsula VCM – Clallam

County Hist. Soc. upload

3rd Overstreet upload;

Photosets grouped into Collections

More than 19,000 views since October 2009!

Metadata Enrichment

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•  115 Comments:

•  14 enhance or enrich metadata

•  12 requesting photos for groups

Flickr Groups: Social networking for photos

Reactive Social Networking (9 photo groups) •  Cologne – Black and White •  Emmett Kelly Sr or Jr - Weary Willie •  Vintage Photos from World War II •  Vintage Monocle •  Legendary Adventures Guild •  Ford Farlaine/Torino •  Worldwide Ship Spotters (WSS) •  Hairygit's Nature Group •  Lighthouses of the World

Peer Networking (4 photo groups) •  Digital Past •  ArchivesOnFlickr •  Mississippi National Register of Historic Places •  Indiana University

Active Social Networking (18 photo groups) •  Old Maxwell Street Market •  WW II •  Colliery & Mine Photos •  The Aviation Museum •  The Greatest Show on Earth •  Images of World War Two •  San Francisco Architecture •  San Francisco •  Clowns •  B&W •  Concentration/Internment Camps •  Funfairs, Fairgrounds and Circuses •  Images of World War Two •  New York Photography •  New York City •  Historical Steamships •  Steamship Historical Society of America •  Olympic Peninsula

Passive Social Networking (1 photo group) •  Cushman Revisited

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IMLS DCC has joined 32 photo groups

Flickr Photo Galleries

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Citizen photo curation in action!

Photo Re-use in Blogs

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Future Directions

•  Flickr Commons Participation – Negotiations have begun – Workflow plan being drafted – Social and “no known copyright” policies in

development •  Weekly/biweekly uploads of 100 to 200

photos continuing •  Analysis of Flickr referrer information

(evidence for browsing/search behaviors?)

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