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But Mr. Dibbits of the Rijksmuseum maintains that letting the public take control of the images is crucial to encouraging people to commune with the collection. “The action of actually working with an image, clipping it out and paying attention to the very small details makes you remember it,” he said.

Nationaal Archief has incorporated the use of Flickr as a standard feature for public presentation and metadata generation

online tool aimed at collecting geographical metadata on a selection of photos from World War I

for most of these photos the locations are unknown

Not only can individual images be saved or posted, but entire pages, specific searches, or collections can be saved and shared.

The pilot brought unprecedented visibility to our vast online photos and images, so it will be interesting to see how the new interface, especially the social-media sharing tools, brings additional awareness of and usefulness to the catalog

  Florence Declaration – Recommendations for the Preservation of Analogue Photo Archives The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut wishes to generate a

  Florence Declaration – Recommendations for the Preservation of Analogue Photo Archives The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut wishes to generate a greater understanding of the inescapable value of photographs and analogue archives for the future of studies in historic, human and social sciences. Only integration between the analogue format and the digital format can guarantee the correct conservation of the photographic heritage for future studies and at the same time the implementation of digital instruments.

A bunch of us in the Commons and the cultural sector had been hassling Aaron and others at Flickr about letting people ’suggest’ geolocations for photographs, but this is much trickier than it first sounds