Interesting indeed, and there's a good discussion emerging on the
Steve.museum mailing list too
(http://steve.museum/mailman/listinfo/discuss), where George Oates has
emerged from lurkerdom.
Flickr looks like it could be a good place for commons images - it has a
great community, of course, and it's also emerging as one of the first
sites that journalists/bloggers/researchers use to search for images
they can republish.
Of course, if you can sort the copyright issues out (and the 'no known
restrictions' is an interesting approach), there's no reason why
historic photos can't be published on many different websites.
I've found http://commons.wikimedia.org to be endless fascinating, and
frequently useful, even though it's only intented for media that's
useful to Wikimedia projects.
Frankie
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> Subject: Library of Congress releases collections on Flickr
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> Super interesting news from Flickr...
>
> > Flickr collaborated with the Library of Congress to
> 'facilitate giving people a voice in describing the content
> of a publicly-held photography collection.' To get things
> started, they've released two collections:
> > * 1930s-40s in colour
> > * News in the 1910s
> > http://www.flickr.com/commons
> > N.b. the focus is on photography collections, rather than
> photographs of other collections.
> >
> > Of particular interest: "these beautiful, historic pictures
> from the Library represent materials for which the Library is
> not the intellectual property owner. Flickr is working with
> the Library of Congress to provide an appropriate statement
> for these materials. It's called 'no known copyright
> restrictions.' Hopefully, this pilot can be used as 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."
> >
> > George Oates - who came to talk to us about Flickr and
> participatory
> > tagging last year - had this to say on Flickr's blog:
> > http://blog.flickr.com/en/2008/01/16/many-hands-make-light-work/
> >
> > And this is how the Library of Congress announced the collaboration:
> > http://www.loc.gov/blog/?p=233
> >
> > Fiona
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> >
> > Fiona Romeo
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