Shelley Bernstein, the Vice Director of Digital Engagement Technology at
the Brooklyn Museum, posted some interesting thoughts on why they left
Flickr entirely (even deleting their content and account) and moved over to
WIkimedia Commons.
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I'm a strong supporter of Wikimedia Commons, then again, I'm a long time
contributor and administrator on the project. I've facilitated programs for the
Walters Art Museum, two Smithsonian units, and advised on numerous other
projects for international colleagues.
I'm happy to provide some
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Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Flickr and digital collections
I'm a strong supporter of Wikimedia Commons, then again, I'm a long time
contributor and administrator on the project. I've facilitated programs for the
Walters Art Museum, two Smithsonian units
at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
Sarah Stierch
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Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Flickr and digital collections
I'm a strong supporter of Wikimedia Commons, then again, I'm a long time
contributor and administrator on the project. I've
Interesting the emphasis on Wikimedia Commons and no mention of the Internet
Archive. Is that because the former is simply more familiar when we are talking
about image-only collections (granted, the bulk of what is out there, and the
only medium usefully addressed by flickr)?
ari
On May 19,
Internet Archive is fabulous, but often text, video and audio based.
And whatever ends up on Internet Archive is often sucked onto Wikimedia
Commons, too.
:)
We also have WikiSource - which makes OCR look funny once you see how that
process works on WS:
Hi Ellice,
there's quite some literature on the subject from a few years back - see
the list below. Main advantage of using Flickr over other social media
sites is their policy of licenses: you can clearly indicate under what
license the material is available - unless you take part in the Flickr
