Flickr teams up with Library of Congress
The Library of Congress has partnered with Flickr to publish two large image collections, Web 2.0-style. The idea is to take advantage of "crowdsourcing," using input from many people around the world. In this case the hoped-for benefit is improving textual descriptions of each image. One collection consists of news photos from the 1920s, the other of color images from the 1930s and 40s.
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This is the pilot for a larger Flickr project, Flickr Commons, which has other crowdsourcing projects in mind.
(thanks to Andrew Connell!)
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