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Library of Congress | 2010 When Geo Info Isnt the Goal: Flickr Pilot Project at the Library of Congress Helena Zinkham Prints & Photographs Division Slide 2 Slide 3 Slide 4 Slide 5 Flickr Pilot Project Goals DISCOVERY: Share photos from LC collections with people who enjoy images but might not visit the Librarys own Web site ENGAGEMENT: Gain information about historical pictures, which are often incompletely identified when they reach LC LEARNING: Build experience participating in Web communities Slide 6 Germany Schaefer at Wash. Senators baseball game, 1911 Slide 7 Slide 8 Slide 9 Views & Favorites Slide 10 Tags in Many Languages Slide 11 Then & Now: Notes on Images Slide 12 Then & Now: Photo Pairs Slide 13 Slide 14 Map Mashups Slide 15 The Commons, in Flickr Slide 16 Friends Group Slide 17 Volunteer-based Applications Slide 18 Budget Slide 19 PLACES in Flickr Slide 20 Word Tags Slide 21 Geo Tags Slide 22 Comments: Verify Info Slide 23 Two-Way Links Slide 24 Geo Tags Slide 25 Map View Slide 26 Geo Tagging Group Slide 27 Portrait with Geo Tags Slide 28 Corrected Data Slide 29 B uilding Names and Dates Slide 30 Slide 31 http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_report_final.pdf READ MORE ABOUT IT Slide 32 CONCLUSION