Originally published in the journal Archival Science, the Smithsonian Institution Libraries has just released under open access terms a report of the Institution’s experience with Flickr Commons. Written by Martin Kalfatovic, Effie Kapsalis, Katherine Spiess, Anne Van Camp, and Mike Edson, the report recounts what the authors deem a mostly successful experiment with Web 2.0, [...]
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SI and Flickr Commons
October 1st, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Digital Humanities · Libraries · Museums · Open Access · Yahoo!
Briefly Noted: Surviving the Downturn; Help with Creative Commons; Yahoo Pipes
March 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
The American Association of State and Local History (AASLH) provides cultural heritage professionals with some relevant information on surviving the economic downturn. JISC provides advice on choosing (or not choosing) a Creative Commons license. Missed it at the launch? Didn’t see the point? Don’t know where to start? Ars Technica has a nice reintroduction and [...]
Tags: Briefly Noted · Local History · Management · Open Access · Public History · Timelines · Tools · Twitter · Visualizations · Yahoo!
Tragedy at the Commons
December 22nd, 2008 · 13 Comments
Nat Torkington at the O’Reilly Radar blog has news this morning that George Oates, Senior Program Manager in charge of Flickr Commons and an original member of the Flickr design team, has been laid off by Flickr’s parent company Yahoo! As the person at Yahoo! responsible for bringing together the energy and cultural resources of [...]
Tags: Digital Humanities · Education · Google · Libraries · Management · Museums · Public History · Yahoo!
Searching History
July 5th, 2007 · No Comments
This week Yahoo! Buzz provides a telling glimpse into the popular historical mind with a list of last Sunday’s top twenty “history” searches. Perhaps predictably the list leans towards the geeky (“History of the Computer” and “History of the Internet”), which probably reflects the technological and scientific biases of internet users, and towards the recreational [...]
Tags Over Time
January 8th, 2007 · No Comments
There’s a new trend in online amateur history that digital history scholars would do well to notice. A few months ago I pointed to Yahoo’s Taglines, a Flash visualization of the changing use of Flickr tags over a 16 month period from June 2004 to September 2005. More recently Chirag Mehta, an IT manager living [...]
Tags: History of Technology · Microsoft · Timelines · Tools · Yahoo!
TagLines
May 27th, 2006 · No Comments
If you haven’t done so already, visit Yahoo’s TagLines now. A rolling timeline of the eight most popular Flickr tags for each day since 2004, TagLines is the most exciting piece of historical work—amateur or otherwise—I’ve seen a while. It is a provocative preview of what will be possible when historians manage fully to wrap [...]
Tags: Timelines · Visualizations · Yahoo!
