{"id":197,"date":"2008-01-19T22:24:40","date_gmt":"2008-01-20T05:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=197"},"modified":"2008-08-01T09:30:53","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T16:30:53","slug":"library-of-congress-and-flickr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/library-of-congress-and-flickr\/","title":{"rendered":"Library of Congress and Flickr"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shortly after reading on our blog Bradley Debrick’s post<\/a> about tagging, I read Matt Raymond’s post<\/a> on the Library of Congress blog about the Library’s pilot project with Flickr<\/a>, an online photosharing site. The Library of Congress is posting photographs which no copyright is known to exist and asking people to comment, make notes, and add tags. Matt Raymond shortly afterward shared<\/a> how well-received that partnership has been thus far.<\/p>\n

I am excited about the project and believe its potential for students of all ages is incredible. The Library of Congress’ Flickr profile page states:<\/p>\n

We’ve been acquiring photos since the mid-1800s when photography was the hot new technology. Because images represent life and the world so vividly, people have long enjoyed exploring our visual collections. Looking at pictures opens new windows to understanding both the past and the present. Favorite photos are often incorporated in books, TV shows, homework assignments, scholarly articles, family histories, and much more.<\/p>\n

The Prints & Photographs Division takes care of 14 million of the Library’s pictures and features more than 1 million through online catalogs. Offering historical photo collections through Flickr is a welcome opportunity to share some of our most popular images more widely.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Are there ways you envision using this project with young people?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shortly after reading on our blog Bradley Debrick’s post about tagging, I read Matt Raymond’s post on the Library of Congress blog about the Library’s pilot project with Flickr, an online photosharing site. The Library of Congress is posting photographs which no copyright is known to exist and asking people to comment, make notes, and add tags. Matt Raymond shortly afterward shared how well-received that partnership has been thus far. I am excited about the project and believe its potential for students of all ages is incredible. The Library of Congress’ Flickr profile page states: We’ve been acquiring photos since the mid-1800s when photography was the hot new technology. Because images represent life and the world so vividly, people have long enjoyed exploring our visual collections. Looking at pictures opens new windows to understanding both the past and the present. Favorite photos are often incorporated in books, TV shows, homework…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[47,24,42,23,9,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collection-development","category-digital-world","category-library-design-and-accessibility","category-news-of-interest","category-partnerships","category-projects-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}