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.
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