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Fantastic and encouraging to see our development of the Data Lifeboat enter the academic publishing arena. Congratulations, Fattori M.! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🍎
A first for the Flickr Foundation: Data Lifeboat is now in academic print! 🛟 🌸 After a warm reception at IEEE Florence, we're excited to share how we built the tool, the technical and social principles behind it, and our ambitions for social media archiving. With thanks to co-authors George Oates and Alex Chan https://lnkd.in/dYx8Hn7z
Flickr Commons is eighteen today. 🎉 We started in 2008 in partnership with the Library of Congress and today we're an archive of 1.9 million digital images, all of which are available with no known copyright restrictions. Please enjoy a few random images and explore on your own using our Commons Explorer tool. 🎂 https://lnkd.in/g7k-rwpm
Winter Research Fellow Oreoluwa Akinyode shares their powerful midpoint reflections in text and audio, accompanied by scanned photo prints of Oreoluwa's Big Daddy Dipo Akinwande's photography of his brother Ebenezer Akinwande along with Adeosun Olamide's photography uploaded on Flickr. Read more at https://lnkd.in/giG-Mbj4
Introducing Data Lifeboat beta! We are continuing to improve our new Flickr archiving tool so saving your Flickr memories is easier than ever.
Curious about Data Lifeboat? The latest Flickr blog post will give you a quick introduction to get you started!
After 21 years, Flickr is still buzzing with the same magic that’s kept photographers coming back since day one. Part of what makes Flickr so special is that once a photo is uploaded to Flickr, it becomes more than just a photo. It sparks conversations, collects stories, builds relationships, and creates lasting memories. That’s why we’re excited about the Flickr Foundation Data Lifeboat - a first-of-its-kind tool designed to help keep those stories alive for the long haul. Data Lifeboat lets you create a portable, browsable archive of selected Flickr photos plus all the rich details that make them meaningful: the EXIF notes, the comments that made your day, the faves that showed someone was paying attention, the tags, locations… all the good stuff. And the best part? Your archive comes as a downloadable zip file you can store, save, share with friends, pass down to family, or even donate to a cultural institution someday. It’s yours to preserve however you choose! 🔗 Read more on the Flickr blog: https://bit.ly/4o0MVEz #FlickrCommunity #FlickrFoundation
We hosted a workshop on digital legacy in the social media age at this year's Mozilla Festival. Shout out to some of our festival highlights, who showcased the brilliant work they’re doing and for teaching us the true spirit of unlearning (this year’s theme). Ruha Benjamin, Internet Exchange, CHAYN, Superbloom, 7amleh - The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media Read more: https://lnkd.in/gvXFwMjy
When you upload a photo to Flickr, you’re not just sharing an image, you’re contributing to a living cultural record. Data Lifeboat ensures that your photographs won't be lost to time by creating a lightweight, usable archive that can travel safely into the future. It's designed to keep invaluable context close by - that's usually the first thing to disappear when we throw piles of digital stuff around. Create your Flickr archive today at https://lnkd.in/e4fX52Ax!
Introducing Data Lifeboat, a new tool built by Flickr Foundation to preserve your photos and the stories around them. Data Lifeboat will allow #Flickr members to create archives – portable, browsable mini-websites that package Flickr photos together with their rich social metadata, including comments, faves, and curation. Here’s a glimpse of photographer Kevin Meredith's Data Lifeboat for the Brighton Swimming Club, featuring photos spanning from 2003 to 2023. Thanks to his work, the club’s incredible history will live on for years to come. “With Data Lifeboat, we’re showing that archiving can be both ethical and accessible. It’s about empowering individuals and institutions to take preservation into their own hands, ensuring their digital histories remain visible and usable for generations.” -Ben MacAskill, President, COO at SmugMug & Flickr #DataLifeboat #photography #digitalarchives
Welcome Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law, our newest Flickr Commons member and our first from Hungary. Their 4,400 glass slides, used as teaching aids in the instruction of forensic science and forensic photography, were (re)discovered in a basement during Covid. https://lnkd.in/e9XuDXTf
Happy Spooky Season! We made a gallery with some of our favorite Halloween images on Flickr Commons. You can archive Flickr galleries using Data Lifeboat - give it a try! Visit datalifeboat.flickr.org today! Spooky Gallery lives here: https://flic.kr/y/3QJSNbn
A technological revolution! This incredible image from the State Library of New South Wales captures a man getting a permanent wave in 1938. It's one of over 1,000 images added to Flickr Commons this week. Explore more newly added imagery at commons.flickr.org/recent Image: https://flic.kr/p/2ryXc9C