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The Library of Congress project is wonderful, especially because it  
illustrates quite well the power of visitors to educate, add personal  
stories, and breathe life into history.  To me as a non-history buff,  
the experience is WAY more engaging than that with their standard  
digital archive.  It's part of a larger Flickr Commons initiative to  
bring public domain images into a social space.

Lots more info and links on that project here: http:// 
museumtwo.blogspot.com/2008/02/library-of-congress-rocks-flickr.html

Nina
On Mar 26, 2008, at 8:58 AM, Mary Montgomery wrote:

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> Some of you may know that the Library of Congress has been using  
> Flickr
> lately in a test run. It was pretty neat, and viewers of the  
> historical
> images were adding interesting information, and plenty of user- 
> friendly
> tags to the images of African-American workers in shipyards during  
> WWII.
> Alas, I don't have the link to the LC project handy, but it  
> shouldn't be
> hard to find.
>
> Personally, I haven't used Picasa, but I did have my first run with
> Flikr lately and it worked like a charm.
>
> Mary Montgomery
> Museum of History & Industry, Seattle
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> Morales
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> Subject: Re: flickr vs picasa vs ?
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> Hi,
>
> I personally used both and Flicker has a regular fee once you go over
> 200 pics vs. Picasa (which I use now) gives you a GB of space.  Yahoo
> permits some image editing/special effects online, if you didn't do it
> before uploading.  Both of those sites have utilities to permit bulk
> uploading and downsizing of the images.  For the most part, those are
> the main differences.
>
> Katherine Morales
>
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Chris Lawrence
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>> Grace,
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>> I feel flickr is the way to go b/c it has a bigger audience, and
>> better social tagging tools. It is also very easy to use with a  
>> strong
>
>> bulk uploader. There are already a number of museums and cultural
>> institutions using the site as a public space.
>>
>> Good luck, please post the link when you decide which avenue you
> choose!
>>
>>
>> Chris Lawrence
>> Senior Manager of Digital Learning
>> New York Hall of Science
>> (718) 699-0005 ext. 319
>> Cell: (718) 757-0843
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>>
>>
>> On Mar 25, 2008, at 8:29 PM, grace manubay wrote:
>>
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>>>
>>> greetings all -
>>>
>>> i am looking into a starting a free (or relatively inexpensive)
>>> photo database that is publicly accessible online.  i've read about
>>> flickr and picasa (and i'm sure there are more out there), so if
>>> anyone has opinions about which is better to use, i'd appreciate the
>
>>> insight.
>>>
>>> many thanks,
>>> grace
>>> environmental educator
>>> washington, dc
>>>
>>>

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