Happy birthday to @[email protected] - 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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Happy birthday to @[email protected] - 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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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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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!
https://www.librarian.net/flickr-commons/
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@[email protected] 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.
https://commons.flickr.org/
Here are a few nerdy librarian deeper dives into some of our photos.
https://www.flickr.org/sixteen-stories-for-flickr-commons-sixteenth-birthday/