From Robert Scoble, at the outset of his two-week travels: Visiting the Library of Congress and Meeting the Flickr team.
I’ll admit I didn’t know about Flickr’s “commons,” launched earlier this year, which includes images from many of the world’s best public photo collections, or the Library of Congress’s Flickr account.
Excerpt:
By opening up the images to Flickr they’ve gotten a ton of information
about the images that they didn’t know. In my HD interview, which will
be up in a few weeks, she shows me how people from around the world add
onto the images with their own stories (one of the granddaughters of
one of the photographers, for instance, gave the library a lot more
details). This is a great example of what happens when you use these
tools to open up items to discussion by everyone. …
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