Announcing The Commons, an opportunity for Flickr members to contribute to describing the world’s public photo collections…

Январь 23, 2008 in web 2.0, Фото, разное
Tags: Commons, Congress, flickr, Library, public photo, tagging

The Commons

Your opportunity to contribute to describing the world’s public photo collections.

The Library of Congress Pilot Project

Back in June of 2007, we began our first collaboration with a civic institution to facilitate giving people a voice in describing the content of a publicly-held photography collection.

The key goals of this pilot project are to firstly give you a taste of the hidden treasures in the huge Library of Congress collection, and secondly to show how your input of a tag or two can make the collection even richer.

You’re invited to help describe photographs in the Library of Congress’ collection on Flickr, by adding tags or leaving comments.*
*Any Flickr member is able to add tags or comment on these collections. If you’re a dork about it, shame on you. This is for the good of humanity, dude!!