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Join us in making sure the incredible images on Flickr.com remain visible to all—100 years from now and beyond. Your support makes this mission possible. 🩷

🦩🦩🦩Donate today and protect our shared visual history: https://flickr.org/donate

#FlickrFoundation #EndofYearGiving #FlickrCommons #100YearPlan

Flickr Commons: Our Grand Re-opening!

We are delighted to welcome our first Flickr Commons members in four years, also the first since the Flickr Foundation was founded in 2022.

Please enjoy these images from the Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County, Letterform Archive, and Port Morien Digital Archive

https://blog.flickr.net/en/2024/11/07/flickr-commons-our-grand-re-opening/

#photography #Flickr #archives

Last week, the women known as NASA’s Hidden Figures, were honored with a Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony to celebrate their legacies and the achievements they made while working at NASA during the space race.

A Flickr blog post mixing archival photos from NASA with pictures from last week's ceremony.

https://blog.flickr.net/en/2024/09/27/nasas-hidden-figures-medal-ceremony-gallery/

#NASA #SpaceRace #HiddenFigures

"Last week, the Backfillr Bot completed its millionth update [on Wikimedia Commons], and we guesstimate we will be able to operate on another 13 million files."

Details on our blog: https://www.flickr.org/improving-millions-of-files-on-wikimedia-commons-with-flickypedia-backfillr-bot/

Code on our Github: https://github.com/flickr-foundation/flickypedia

"Flickr is a living social media environment, with up to 25 million images uploaded each day. The reality of the company’s being acquired by a number of different parent companies over the course of its 20-year lifetime...additionally brings to the forefront a stark case for working to ensure the availability of its contents into the long future."

On the way to 100 years of Flickr. A report on archival strategies by Ashley Kelleher Skjøtt

https://www.flickr.org/report-archiving-the-living-environment/ #archives #flickr

Since the Flickr Foundation's inception, one of our main goals has been to nurture and grow the Flickr Commons.

While we work out some of the back-end onboarding processes we'd like to know: would your organization like to be part of Flickr Commons, soonish?

Are you an institution (large or small) with photos you'd like to share, which have no known copyright restrictions?

More about Flickr Commons: https://www.flickr.org/programs/flickr-commons/flickr-commons-how-it-works/

Let us know if you're in: https://forms.gle/rH7eR64f4z66wX5r7

Please share. 💗

Gearing up for the total eclipse of the sun (in some parts of the world) happening in less than two weeks. We've made a sunny gallery. 🌞 😎 ☀️

https://www.flickr.com/photos/flickrfoundation/galleries/72157722660482216/

NASA also has some gorgeous solar images. We can't put them in our gallery but we can share theirs with you. Happy viewing!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/albums/72157650651232765/

#sun #SolarEclipse #photography

"Telephones used to have a singular purpose - making a call! They mostly stayed in place - on a table, a desk, a wall, or even inside a phone booth on the side of the road. Take a look back at images of all kinds of phones in the collections of the Prints & Photographs Division."

A Flickr Commons photo album from the Library of Congress which we look at and feel nostalgic and also a million years old.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/albums/72177720315447088/
#photography #phones #communication #POTS

Today in the US is Presidents Day, a sort of nebulous holiday celebrating the birthdays of Washington and Lincoln. These two presidents were born about 70 years apart, Washington before the advent of photography and Lincoln afterwards.

The earliest known photograph of Lincoln, taken when he was just a Congressman-elect, is on Flickr Commons, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3253744672/

Our Flickr Commons Explorer now features a Commons-specific search! 🔎 💪

https://commons.flickr.org/search?query=monday

Happiest of birthdays to Flickr.com which launched 20 years ago today. We are so happy to be along with you on this journey.

https://blog.flickr.net/en/2024/02/02/20-years-of-significant-moments-in-flickrs-development/

Here's the first photo that was posted to Flickr Commons--less than four years after Flickr.com opened its doors--from our longtime partner, the Library of Congress.

#flickr #photography #TheOldWeb

ICYMI a blog post about our Flickypedia project, from Flickr.com: Building Bridges for Open Content: Flickr Foundation’s Link between Flickr and Wikimedia Commons

https://blog.flickr.net/en/2023/09/19/building-bridges-for-open-content-flickr-foundations-link-between-flickr-and-wikimedia-commons/

Image from NASA on the Commons, from Flickr Commons.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/9460617672

Timely update: the code for Flickypedia--a tool that allows for a simple import of appropriately licensed Flickr images to Wikimedia Commons--is now live on Github.

https://github.com/flickr-foundation/flickypedia

Image from State Library of Queensland, on Flickr Commons

#OpenSource #wikipedia #photography #dataportability

Introducing Flickypedia, our first tool!

Our tech lead explains this simple (and good-looking) tool that gives users easy way to copy appropriately-licensed photos from Flickr to Wikimedia Commons. It does duplicate checking, license checking, and the project includes a "Backfillr Bot" which goes and adds Flickr IDs to the 10M images from Flickr which are already on Wikimedia Commons.

Read all about it, we think it's really cool.

https://www.flickr.org/introducing-flickypedia/

#wikipedia #photography #wikimedia

Today's the day, Flickr Commons' sixteenth birthday! 🎉

We did an Explore takeover on Flickr.com. Browse through nearly five hundred photos from galleries, libraries, archives and museums, just scratching the surface of the growing collection of over 1.5 million images. Let us know if you have favorites.

#GLAM #Photography

Image from
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, The National Library of Wales

https://www.flickr.com/explore/2024/01/15/

Flickr Commons turns 16th on the 16th and we won't say all of what we're planning but there may be a blog post about historical cat photographs.

Photos from The State Library of New South Wales and the (US) National Library of Medicine.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/3918006893/
https://flickr.com/photos/47756470@N03/52224983290

We've got a birthday coming up!

Flickr Commons turns sixteen on the 16th and we're working on some fun things to show you and we're just browsing Commons birthday pix until then.

https://www.flickr.com/search/?&is_commons=1&view_all=1&text=birthday

Image credit, Powerhouse Museum & Library of Congress

https://www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/8029079580
https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/51162882162/

#birthday #photography #FlickrCommons

Happy Public Domain Day!

Please enjoy the millions of images with No Known Copyright Restrictions that are available on Flickr Commons.

This particular image is one of our faves, the aurora australis, or “southern lights,” captured by the ISS while it passed over the Indian Ocean

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/15473869590/

More here: https://www.flickr.com/commons