Blog
Please welcome the Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law Library to Flickr Commons! Our first Hungarian member.
"Entire categories of imagery or creators can disappear simply because no one thought they mattered in the moment. That’s the tension between saving and hoarding."
Digital libraries and cultural heritage leader, Rachel L. Frick, joins our Board of Directors.
Our second stop on the European conference circuit was Paris, for the Sixteenth International Conference on The Image where George and Tori shared the release of Data Lifeboat and the importance of citizen-driven collecting.
Tori shares her reflections on a recent conference in Florence, where she detailed our progress on the Data Lifeboat alpha alongside the value of collecting from social media for heritage practitioners.
Meet Tosin Adeosun as she details her experiences as a digital curator, managing care and loss in user-generated archives and shares some of her favorites from the Flickr Commons collection.
Anna will be joining us on an AHRC PhD placement from University College London to support on Data Lifeboat research.
Oreoluwa Akinyode joins us as our second Research Fellow of 2025, exploring the historic interplay of West African photography and textiles.
Our research lead Fattori McKenna sifted through Flickr Commons for daybooks throughout history to consider what can be gained by keeping a Flickr Foundation daybook.
Jill Blackmore Evans returns to put forth four principles for enacting Reflective Web Archiving, to deliver a more responsible, equitable and usable web archive for the future.
Tori shares her highlights from Flickr Foundation's big week in the Netherlands talking data care and digital commons
"As the home of the largest collection of Creative Commons-licensed photos on the planet, Flickr has long championed the power of CC licensing..."
Please enjoy our write-up of the co-design workshops we ran last year with preservation experts, archivists, librarians, academics, and technologists on the viability of Data Lifeboat
Find out more about how we are centering our work on the digital image lifecycle, from creation to preservation
Tori shares her reflections from the Rijksmuseum x World Press Photo Forum symposium in May
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