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The Library of Congress, Flickr, and You
Posted 16 Jan 2008 by John Eckman in OPEN SOURCE Tags: Crowdsource, User Generated Content, Collective Intelligence, Collaboration, Yahoo!, Community, Images, TagsThe folks at Flickr and the Library of Congress have worked together to create The Commons.
Basically they've taken a subset of the images in the Library of Congress which have no known copyright restrictions and posted them as a collection on Flickr.
Where do you come in?
They're asking / allowing users to describe and tag those images, which will enable them to be found and shared with a global audience.
It's a great collaboration and a beautiful way to spend some time, and browsing a few of the photos it looks like they are already getting tagged well.
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