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The Commons - folksonomy meets the Library of Congress

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The Commons - folksonomy meets the Library of Congress

  • In: Blog
  • By: john
  • January 16th, 2008
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One of our most popular speakers last year, George Oates of Flickr, writes in detail today about a collaboration between the Library of Congress (the US National Library), and Flickr to enable anyone to tag the Library’s photographic collection.

For now it’s a pilot project of about 1500 photos, but hopefully this will be greatly extended in future.You can read more at Flickr, and the Library of Congress blog.

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2 Responses to “The Commons - folksonomy meets the Library of Congress”

  • Ben Buchanan January 16th, 2008 at 2:40 pm

    On a similar vein (crowdsourcing meets established institution), the National Library of Australia has a project allowing Flickr users to contribute their own photos to the Picture Australia collection: http://www.pictureaustralia.org/

  • admin January 16th, 2008 at 3:54 pm

    Thanks Ben,

    in a way this is even cooler - why categorize when you can contribute!

    john

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