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Help us welcome Rachel L. Frick to our Board! Rachel is a digital libraries and cultural heritage leader with over 20 years of experience in transformational leadership, community building, and ensuring equitable access to information and resources.
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New Blog Post.
Library of Congress & Flickr Commons: Analysis of user interactions on 40,000 images
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- Organizing 95K photo comments.
- Viewer to explore user georectified images
- Folksonomy tagging vs LCSH Vocabulary
- Placing into the Wiki* knowledge graph
Thank you for spreading the word!
25.09.2025 17:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0As part of the launch of the Data Lifeboat, we will be sharing some examples of Data Lifeboats. The Commons 1k Data Lifeboat is a collection of 1,000 of the most liked and talked about images from Flickr Commons.
You can see the full Data Lifeboat and datalifeboat.flickr.org/showcase
A man in a suit makes an exaggerated - possible exasperated or confused -- facial expression with eyebrows arched and and eyes looking down and to the side.
Three children running and smiling in bug-like costumes that include antennae. Transcript: Calling all bug hunters! Data Lifeboat Alpha Release is live!
Even great code has some bugs!
Be among the first to try out our new Flickr archiving tool Data Lifeboat, and help us find those bugs! Head over to datalifeboat.flickr.org to get started.
Original images from US National Archives and State Library of NSW on Flickr Commons.
A ballerina dressed in a metallic rooster costume squats low to the ground while remaining on point. The photo is captures the ballerinas form directly in profile.
This photo of Tatiana Riabouchinska as the Golden Cockerel in Le Coq d'or, uploaded by the State Library of New South Wales captures the magic of Colonel de Basil's 'Original Ballet Russe' during their Australian tour. One of our favorites from the 1,469 new photos added to Flickr Commons this week.
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Event update: Research Lead Tori McKenna shares a brief recap International Conference of Cyber-Humanities Recap in Florence. www.flickr.org/icch-recap-2...
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A man sits with legs crossed on top of a work bench next to a window with various tailoring tools on the surface around him. He is working on a piece of fabric shaped over his knee.
What's happening in this photo? A Flickr member shared a story giving context to this photo uploaded by the National Library of Wales: βI was an apprentice tailor in 1955 and that is how we worked - sitting cross legged on the bench - your knee is perfect for shaping shoulders and collars etc.β
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A woman at the turn of the 20th century in black period appropriate dress standing on a street with brick wall holds a long haired white cat.
Our humble submission to #caturday comes from Schlesinger Library on the History of Women (@rad-institute.bsky.social) in America on Flickr Commons.
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Two men in the distance are atop of naturally created rock bridge that connects two sections of land. The coastline of a body of water can be seen through the arch.
A poet's "mugshot" from @cabhc.bsky.social and two men keeping watch over a fairy bridge in County Donegal from the @nlireland.bsky.social were among our favorites of the 1,457 new photos this week on Flickr Commons.
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We were thrilled to chat with founder & curator of African Style Archive, Tosin Adeosun, and learn about her experience as a digital curator, managing care and loss in user-generated archives, and explore her favorite images from the Flickr Commons.
Read the article: www.flickr.org/african-styl...
Help us welcome the newest face at Flickr.org! Anna joins us as a part-time research placement where sheβll be supporting us with Data Lifeboat research and potential institutional applications.
Read the introduction at www.flickr.org/welcome-anna/
Five women wearing leotards acrobatically pose visually creating a A-frame pyramid by posing on stacked ladders.
An older woman pauses to look at a circular display of canned ham in a grocery store.
A group of women and young girls pose for a wedding photo in a period specific living room. The bride is wearing a white wedding gown holding a bouquet of red flowers and is surrounded by her bridesmaids wearing matching blue dresses.
The corner storefront sign for Dolly Donut is illuminated at twilight, with a billboard peaking out behind it. A few customers can be seen sitting inside.
What do canned hammed displays, rodeos, and donut shops have in common? They are all part of the culture and history preserved in the Provincial Archives of Alberta of course.
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"As a griot telling and carrying stories through the language of photography, film, writing, and music, I am called to multimedia practices that allow me honor and preserve oneβs legacy."
Read 2025 Flickr Foundation Research Fellow Oreoluwa Ifamodupe Akinyode's intro www.flickr.org/greetings-or...
We are so excited to welcome our newest Flickr Commons members @bpl.boston.gov and Archives at NCBS!
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poster shows a drawing of a man in uniform, either military or a sea captain, with a light blue and orange fish on his head. He has his hand to his chin as if pondering an idea.
Medical illustration showing a human head cutaway with numbers and pines pointing to various parts of it surrounded by words in italian.
Drawing of a human brain exposed by retracting the membranes and showing the two cerebral hemispheres separated by the median plane. There is Japanese writing around it
Today is World Brain Day established by the World Federation of Neurology in 2014. This year's theme is Brain Health for All Ages. Enjoy your brain today and these brainy images from Flickr Commons!
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A man wearing a suit carrying a stack of books looks at a large bookshelf filled with encyclopedias. Behind him a woman is standing reading a book and another man browses the shelf in the distance.
In our latest blog post, research lead Fattori McKenna sifted through Flickr Commons for daybooks throughout history to consider what can be gained by keeping a Flickr Foundation daybook.
Image from LSE Library on Flickr Commons.
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Jessamyn West, Flickr Commons Community Manager, chats with Flickr user Sarah Beaupre (wakethesun) about her extensive practice in cataloging animals across Flickr Commons images.
Read the full conversation at blog.flickr.net/en/2025/07/1...
Jill Blackmore Evans returns to put forth four principles for enacting Reflective Web Archiving, to deliver a more responsible, equitable and usable web archive for the future.
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Hopping around the Randstad, Flickr Foundation was busy talking data care and digital commons in the Netherlands last week.
Read the full article:
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Here's the whole set, over at Flickr Commons. One of our faves.
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Red badge pin with white text resembling a Coca-Cola logo reading βGay-Love itβs the real thingβ
Pink badge pin with a bold graphic arrow pointing up at a diagonal with text reading "Gays Against Nazis"
White badge pin with bold red text reading βLESBIANS UNITE.β
White badge pin with green silhouette of a limp-wristed foppish man with a hand on his hip reading βQueens rule OK?β
Make Pride 365! Come through @lselibrary.bsky.social⬠with these vintage buttons from the Hall-Carpenter Archives, 1970s-1980s.
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Etta Moten Barnett, actress, concert artist, and radio personality, smiling and leaning against and open iron gate in front of a stone building. Transcript: Project Spotlight. Black Women Oral History Project, 1976-1981 on Flickr Commons
Mother Waddles, ordained minister, pastor, and published author, smiling mid-dance below a sign for Mother Waddles Medical Center.
Pleasant Harrison, accomplished artisan and caregiver, sitting in a home environment, looking into the distance with hands folded on a blue and white patterned table.
A group of portraits including Alice Dunnigan, schoolteacher, political activist, and journalist and Zelma Watson George, sociologist, diplomat, and opera singerβ¨Kathleen Adams, teacher and historian. Transcript: Black Women Oral History Project, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in American, see the full gallery on Flickr Commons in the link.
For Juneteenth we're sharing the Black Women Oral History Project Interviews. Supported by The Schlesinger Library @rad-institute.bsky.social, this project recorded women who made significant contributions to American society in the early 20th century.
Photos: Judith Sedwick.
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Presentation slide. Content: βPreserving social media? Try Data Lifeboat.β Europeana, 10 June 2025 George Oates, glo@flickr.org
Presentation slide. Contents: Flickr Commons 17 years old 116 members 1,885,454 photographs 4.58 billion views 347,685 comments 596,754 tags
Presentation slide. Contents: a schema of the Data Lifeboaat tool architecture. 1. Login to Flickr 2. Select photos 3. Get consent 4. Write README 5. Add to ledger 6. Download ZIP file
Presentation slide. Content: ALPHA COMING SOON! datalifeboat.flickr.org
In 2017 the entire Flickr.com photo archive was almost deleted by its owner Verizon. The @flickrfdn.bsky.social is working heroically to preserve these photos for the next 100 years. They have developed a toolkit called Data Lifeboat which allows anyone to create a Flickr timecapsule. #Europeana2025
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Vintage photo of a child in a toy car wearing driving goggles, a hat and white lace neck ruffle text overlayed "Rolling into summer like"
Upside down vintage photo of a child in a toy car wearing driving goggles, a hat and white lace neck ruffle text overlayed "Rolling into winter like."
We are just weeks away from the alpha launch of Data Lifeboat, and are feeling GREAT.
Image from State Library of Queensland on Flickr Commons
Flickr Foundation Publishes Research Report: Building a β#Data Lifeboatβ For #Flickr www.infodocket.com/2025/06/05/f... #photographs #images @flickrfdn.bsky.social @mellon.org
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Sunday, May 18th was International Museum Day so we thought it was a great time to introduce a new addition to Flickr Commons. The Flickr Foundation is thrilled to welcome Auckland War Memorial Museum to Flickr Commons.
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#Flickr #photography #NewZealand
The Navy Nurse Corps is comprised of more than 2,500 active duty and reserve nurses in over 20 specialties who provide care or support patient care to the US Navy and Marine Corps, their families, and retirees.
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Black and white photograph of people in Chicago dressed in suits and long dressed holding banners which say May Day and a few other things which aren't legible
IDLE CLOAKMAKERS IN MAY DAY PARADE; To Make 5th Ave March Today a Demonstration of Strength and Unity. $500,000 IN STRIKE FUND Manufacturers Tell the Public They Must Be Masters in Their Own Shops and Attack Union.
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1916 parade photos.
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"One of a series of photographs and negatives of engaged couples taken by staff of The Intelligencer newspaper in Belleville, Ontario.
The man and woman in this image were not identified. It was taken in 1973."
ID-ed in the #Flickr comments within two days.
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