Library of Congress Releases 3100 photos on to Flickr
Related an ongoing discussion with regards to sharing and copyright (here) the Library of Congress have just placed 3100 photos on on to Flickr, (a photo sharing site). And the selected photos have no known copyright restrictions.
What’s interesting is that the library is harnessing the power of the Flickr community takes over, “We want people to tag, comment, and make notes on the images, just like any other Flickr photo. … Many photos are missing key caption information such as where the photo was taken and who is pictured. If such information is collected via Flickr members, it can potentially enhance the quality of the bibliographic records for the images.”, (Matt Raymond, institution’s official blog).
On 18th Jan the blog published a few stats: 392,000 views on the photostream, 650,000 views of photos, aAll 3,100+ photos have been viewed and 420 of the photos have comments. The number of tags applied already is uncountable.
The photos can be viewed on Flickr here.
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