Feb
19
Wikinomics in action
Posted by Dirk Avery at 10:03 pm under Copyright, Incentive, Wikinomics.
The Library of Congress has launched a pilot program with photo-sharing site Flickr to enable people to enhance the metadata on visual materials in its collection.
According to a blog posting by Matt Raymond, director of communications, the program is starting modestly — with 3,000 photographs that are out of copyright from two of the Library’s most popular collections… “We want people to tag, comment and make notes on the images, just like any other Flickr photo, which will benefit not only the community but also the collections themselves,” Raymond wrote. “For instance, many photos are missing key caption information such as where the photo was taken and who is pictured. If such information is collected via Flickr members, it can potentially enhance the quality of the bibliographic records for the images.”