Photo of a woman aircraft worker by David Bransby, June 1942
Today Flickr launches The Commons, starting with a pilot program with The Library of Congress. According to The Library of Congress blog, “out of some 14 million prints, photographs and other visual materials at the Library of Congress, more than 3,000 photos from two of our most popular collections are being made available on our new Flickr page, to include only images for which no copyright restrictions are known to exist. The real magic comes when the power of the Flickr community takes over. We want people to tag, comment and make notes on the images, just like any other Flickr photo, which will benefit not only the community but also the collections themselves.” The hope is that this “is a model that other cultural institutions would pick up, to share and redistribute the myriad collections held by cultural heritage institutions all over the world.” Read Flickr’s blog post.
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