Library of Congress pics on flickr
Via Agence France Presse’s MediaWatch blog: The US Library of Congress is collaborating with the photo-sharing site flickr on an ambitious new project, making around 3,000 of the Library’s most popular collections available on the site and opening them to comments. The LOC is asking the general public to join in on the cataloging:
From the LOC blog:
“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. For instance, many photos are missing key caption information such as where the photo was taken and who is pictured. If such information is collected via Flickr members, it can potentially enhance the quality of the bibliographic records for the images.”
You can find the LOC-flickr page here. Warning, this page will suck you in for a good 45 minutes.