Photo Sharing for Teachers - SVEA

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Flickr has created its own public photo library called The Commons & this will be examined
next.
3.3 The Commons
The Commons is a recent addition to Flickr (2008). An initial pilot in conjunction with the
Library of Congress now allows access to publicly held photographic collections. It also
verifies their copyright status and allows Flickr users to contribute information and
knowledge to the photos.
This has been a highly popular area of Flickr, with many educational establishments engaging
and contributing through tagging and discussion within The Commons community. More
and more institutions want to participate and add collections to it, so much so that there is a
hold on registration of interest for 2010!
There are 46 Institutions that currently have their archives freely available on The
Commons. UK based institutions include National Library of Scotland, National Library
Wales, The national Archives UK and the Imperial War Museum Collection.
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