Smithsonian on Flickr
The Smithsonian has joined The Commons on Flickr, which started as a pilot between the Library of Congress 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 contains some fantastic gems, including portraits of scientists, cyanotypes cataloging the Smithsonian’s other collections, and cool photos from past Folklife festivals.
Go look, add some tags, but be careful- much like the LOC collections, you can find yourself losing hours poking around at this stuff.
this is way cool! i’m liking it and linking it! thanks for sharing!
Very cool. But who is George and why are they one of the Smithsonian’s contacts?
George is a Flickr employee. Since institutions have to contact Flickr to be added to The Commons in order to get access to the "no known copyright restrictions" flag, it stands to reason that the Smithsonian people would add those employees as contacts.
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