Smithsonian on Flickr
Posted By Tiffany Bridge On June 18, 2008 @ 11:10 am In Art, Photography, Science & Technology | Comments Disabled
[1] The Smithsonian has joined The Commons [2] on Flickr, which started as a pilot between the Library of Congress [3] and Flickr to increase access to publicly-held photo collections and allow the public to contribute knowledge and information (such as tags) to those collections.
The Smithsonian’s photostream [1] contains some fantastic gems, including portraits of scientists [4], cyanotypes [5] cataloging the Smithsonian’s other collections, and cool photos from past Folklife festivals [6].
Go look, add some tags, but be careful- much like the LOC collections, you can find yourself losing hours poking around at this stuff.
Article printed from Washington D.C. Metblogs: http://dc.metblogs.com
URL to article: http://dc.metblogs.com/2008/06/18/6899/
URLs in this post:
[1] Image: http://flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/
[2] The Commons: http://flickr.com/commons
[3] Library of Congress: http://flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress
[4] portraits of scientists: http://flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/sets/72157605338975676/
[5] cyanotypes: http://flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/sets/72157604590559182/
[6] cool photos from past Folklife festivals: http://flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/sets/72157605339006464/
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