The Way we Lived Flickr project, is a great example of libraries connecting with key social media partners . To find out more information about this project, please read the following Newsweek article.
Archivists at the Library of Congress need your help, and Flickr’s, to identify these photos.
A koan for our digital age: if a picture is worth a thousand words, what is the right word worth? The Library of Congress aims to find out. The venerable old institution has teamed up with Flickr, the popular social-networking and photo-sharing site, to create “Flickr Commons.” By putting 3,115 of its archival photographs on the site, the LOC hopes Flickr’s community of users will apply tags—usually one-word descriptions—to them. The photos are already online at the library’s Web site, but the LOC hopes Flickr’s 23 million members will tell them something about the images they don’t already know. “It’s akin to bringing the mountain to Muhammad,” says Matt Raymond, the LOC’s director of communications. “It’s an excellent way to use the technology” (Braiker, 2008).
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Adolph B. Rice Studio.(1960, March 4). Street lights, Jefferson Avenue at night. Library of Virginia, Prints and Photographs. Retrieved November 22, 2008 from http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_virginia/2899348024/
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