1. June 4, 20141 Archives on Flickr Commons (Its not your mothers audience anymore) Society of American Archivists August 13, 2009 Deborah Wythe

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4. Blended account Museum events activities Commons behind the scenes

5. Collections in Flickr

6. Brooklyn Bridge project (late 2006): All visual materials in the art, libraries and archives collections related to the Brooklyn Bridge. identify digitize create metadata clear © release on Web

7. Brooklyn Bridge project community: Flickr group links to brooklynmuseum.org

8. Flickr sets: color high interest already scanned & described no known © restrictions contextual text link back to Museum for more detail or finding aid

9. talk to us! These images were uploaded at high resolution and it helps us to know how our visitors work with our images, so if you use them, we'd love to know how! Drop us a line by leaving a comment here or email our archivist: library@brooklynmuseum.org Do you have a "now" photograph to any of these "then" images? We'd love to see them, so consider posting as a comment using Flickr's provided HTML code. what set next? query on Indicommons

10. Comments, comments, and more comments

11. listen research respond correct track changes

12. Build on the interaction: notes (sometimes helpful, sometimes noise taggers rule! (grab the content) tags show international & multilingual reach

13. Mashups, reuse & repro rights your images will be used in ways you never imagined be ready to embrace the public domain (if you love it, set it free…)

14. Size matters: Flickr full size (and you can scroll…)

15. our full size …

16. Go where the people go (how many views will your pictures get?) World's Columbian Exposition: Ferris Wheel, Chicago, United States, 1893. Bird's eye view from Ferris Wheel looking east. Museum: 9 Flickr: 3313

17. World's Columbian Exposition: Ferris Wheel, Chicago, United States, 1893 [View through support wires from one gondola to gondolas opposite on] Museum: 21 Flickr: 9916

18. Views, Objects: Egypt. Luxor. View 02: Egypt - Dhahabiyeh of American Tourists, Luxor. Museum: 1 Flickr: 5981

19. Paris Exposition: Eiffel Tower and Celestial Globe, Paris, France, 1900, Museum: 25 Flickr: 15,200 Museum views: Dec. 2008 - July 2009 Flickr views: Spring 2008 - July 2009

20. Old (early 2006) hierarchy- based not image- centric hard to browse not inviting if youre not a serious researcher no Web 2.0 tools

21. Museum collections pages (fall 2008) images are primary simple search advanced search tags comments tagging games links to finding aids

22. Flickr Commons: huge community of image-seekers many tools for interaction one search, multiple collections

23. Brooklyn Museum on Flickr Commons: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brooklyn_museum/collections/72157604660129825/ Brooklyn Museum Archives collections: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/archives/ Brooklyn Museum digital collections: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/research/digital-collections/ Brooklyn Museum blog: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/blogosphere/bloggers/ GO EXPLORE! Deborah Wythe deborah.wythe@brooklynmuseum.org