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Europeana 2025

Preserve, Protect, Reuse

Saving billions of things on social media: Data Lifeboat to the Rescue?
Flickr turned 21 years old in February 2025. It’s a grandma of the web, and has grown into a collection of tens of billions of images; a unique representation of our shared histories over the last 20+ years. The Flickr Foundation was established in 2022 to keep Flickr pictures visible for 100 years (whether they’re on Flickr or not). It is working on a decentralization solution called Data Lifeboat, a self-contained, well-designed archival unit containing a selected sliver of Flickr pictures and their metadata. Join this session to see an overview of the prototyping and user research to date!

Here’s George and The Boss of Europeana, the delightful and esteemed Harry Verwayen.

Harry Verwayen and George Oates at Europeana 2025 - Preserve, Protect, Reuse

Here are George’s slides from the day:

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Three men work in a testing facility. A person in a metallic space suit is suspended horizontally, supported by two others on either side. A grid pattern decorates the background.

Looking back over 2025

Here's a handy compendium of all the stuff we've done this year. Wheee!

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Oreoluwa’s Midpoint Reflections

Flickr Foundation's Winter Research Fellow shares their reflections on the Fellowship so far and the next phases of their creative, archival research

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New Podcast: How we made Flickr's community so nice

George talks with Rabble of Revolution Social to discuss her work designing Flickr and the model for an alternative internet with care, community and preservation at its core.

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