I’ve already written a post about Library of Congress online presence at Flickr. Now the Swedish National Heritage Board has uploaded 150 photographs to Flickr.
I find that this is a brilliant way of making cultural heritage significant. Beyond the few times a year I go to a museum I can’t say, that I experience being […]

I found this great example of user generated metadata. It’s a photograph from The Smithsonian Institution libraries and it portraits: Niels Bohr, James Franck, Albert Einstein and Isidor Isaac Rabi.

The metadata provided by the Smithsonian are poor and some plain wrong. But fortunately Flickr has some bright users who noticed the errors (the […]