Hi Danny,
Royal Academy - one of my photos was selected to go into the display at the RA and to go into their archives:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/documentingcontemporarylondon/
Laing Art Gallery have done something in relation to an exhibition: http://www.flickr.com/groups/northernspirit/
Best wishes,
Janet
--- On Fri, 9/7/10, Birchall, Danny <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Birchall, Danny <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Flickr pools & subject interest
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Friday, 9 July, 2010, 16:30
> Hi
>
> Thanks for all the answers so far. To push the question a
> little bit
> further....
>
> What I'm looking for is less about museum collections
> finding their way
> out to the public through Flickr and the commons (and the
> attendant
> interpretation and data that can return to the collections)
> than what
> has found its way *into* museums and archives (or at least
> their
> thinking) through Flickr -- ie has any organisation ever
> curated (even
> online) an exhibition from Flickr photographers'
> contributions to a
> group pool, except for specific competitions?
>
> For instance, the V&A's wedding fashion site
> (http://www.vam.ac.uk/things-to-do/wedding-fashion/home),
> doesn't use
> Flickr, but is an example of the sort of thing I'm talking
> about. Has
> anyone yet written about what's been learned about wedding
> fashion from
> what's been submitted? Will the exhibition's catalogue
> include an essay
> specifically about user submissions and what they tell us
> (and how they
> might even contradict our established understandings)?
>
> Sorry to bang on; I'm trying to write something, and I'm
> looking for
> other people's experience/understanding to build on. Thanks
> for
> listening & enjoy your weekends.
>
> Danny
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of
> Lotte Belice
> Sent: 09 July 2010 14:37
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [MCG] Flickr pools & subject interest
>
> Dear Gail and Danny,
>
> @Gail: Is it possible you are referring to the report For
> the Common
> Good:
> The Library of Congress Flickr Pilot Project
> (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_report_final.pdf)?
>
> @Danny: Seb Chan from the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney has
> also written
> about about their experiences with Flickr: The Commons on
> their blog
> (for instance
> http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2008/04/08/powerhouse-
> museum-joins-the-commons-on-flickr-the-what-why-and-how/).
>
> RunCoCo has also posted entries related to Flickr for the
> Great War
> Archive project:
> http://blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk/runcoco/2010/01/18/gwa-to-runcoco/.
>
> Good luck!
>
> All the best,
>
> Lotte
>
> --- On Fri, 7/9/10, Gail Durbin <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> From: Gail Durbin <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Flickr pools & subject interest
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Friday, July 9, 2010, 3:21 PM
>
> I seem to remember the Library of Congress wrote something
> about its
> involvement with the Flickr Commons but I cannot pinpoint
> it.
> Gail
>
> >>> "Birchall, Danny" <[log in to unmask]>
> 09 July 2010 >>>
> Hi
>
> Time for a Friday question....I can't imagine that there
> are many
> cultural heritage orgs that haven't used Flickr groups
> around their
> subject areas. Usually 'user engagement' is seen as
> sufficient
> justification for setting up a pool (I wouldn't argue with
> that) and
> success measured as a function of participation.
>
> But does anyone know of any papers/essays/posts written
> from a
> curatorial viewpoint discussing how the content of Flickr
> pools might
> have reflected on an organisation's collections, increased
> understanding
> of the subject area, or otherwise added to enlightenment
> and
> understanding that wasn't there before?
>
> Natasha Waterson & Fiona Romeo's paper on Astronomy
> Photography of the
> Year touches on some of these issues:
> http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/papers/romeo/romeo.html
>
>
> ... can anyone think of any others?
>
> Thanks for any inspiration you can offer
>
> Danny
>
>
>
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