Question: What groups of photographs should we post on Flickr next, and why?
What groups of photographs should we post on Flickr next, and why?
The NARA photostream on Flickr launched in July. So far, the pilot project includes photographs and their corresponding descriptions from the Women’s Bureau, the Environmental Protection Agency’s DOCUMERICA project, and a variety of “NARA Favorites,” plus links to each image’s ARC record. It’s been great to see the public participation up to this point. (Check out the fascinating link a viewer posted on one of our War Relocation Authority photos!) We’d love to hear your suggestions on what ARC images should go up next.
Photograph of Acetate Foil for Laminating from National Archives Record Group 64 (Local Identifier 64-NA-464 / ARC Identifier 3493252)
Posted by Kristen (admin) on September 3, 2009, under Digitization, Photographs, Questions, Social Media (Web 2.0).
Tags: ARC, Flickr, tagging
Comments: 8
Comments
Comment from Phryxe
Time September 3, 2009 at 2:52 pm
You should publish photos where you can get help from the community identifying people and places!
Comment from Eira
Time September 3, 2009 at 3:56 pm
How about some labor movement photos or documents in light of the upcoming Labor Day weekend?
Comment from Kristen (admin)
Time September 4, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Great idea, Eira! Keep an eye on Flickr over the next week to see some of our favorite labor-related photos!
Comment from Kelly in Kansas
Time September 9, 2009 at 10:53 am
In case this isn’t already in the works, has anyone asked the regions and the presidential libraries to provide “staff favorites” that they know the public would find most interesting? For exampke, Buffalo Bill and Walt Disney in Kansas City; Kent State and the frisbee case in Chicago; 70s Busing riots in Boston; Prohibition in Seattle; Bonnie and Clyde in Fort Worth; civil rights in Atlanta; Batman and the Rosenberg case in NYC; railroads in Denver; slavery and some of the Founding Fathers in Philadelphia.
Just some thoughts to consider!
Comment from Jill (Admin)
Time September 10, 2009 at 8:48 am
Kelly in Kansas,
We have talked to the regions and presidential libraries about highlighting their records. I like your idea of having it feature “staff favorites.”
Thanks!
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Time September 13, 2009 at 8:17 am
[...] in the United States has been posting digitized historical photos to Flickr. It is now seeking input from the public about which photos it should post online [...]
Comment from Larry Cebula
Time September 16, 2009 at 3:47 pm
I would love to see some improvements to the Flickr commenting interface first. Many of the LOC photos on Flickr now have hundreds of comments, most of them chaff. “Nice photo!” “Cute hair!” etc. Buried somewhere a hundred comments down someone actually adds useful metadata to the photo–but try and find the useful comment!
I blogged about the problem here:
“”Lick This”: LOC, Flickr, and the Limits of Crowd Sourcing”:
http://northwesthistory.blogspot.com/2009/06/lick-this-loc-flickr-and-limits-of.html
Comment from Rog[erio Farias
Time September 3, 2009 at 12:43 pm
You should post photographs portraying great moments of American diplomacy and foreign relations.