The Commons — folksonomy meets the Library of Congress

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.

2 responses to “The Commons — folksonomy meets the Library of Congress”:

  1. 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/

    • By:admin
    • January 16th, 2008

    Thanks Ben,

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

    john

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