Blog - Flickr Foundation

Flickr Foundation goes Dutch!

Tori shares her highlights from Flickr Foundation's big week in the Netherlands talking data care and digital commons

Creative Commons 4.0 has arrived on Flickr!

"As the home of the largest collection of Creative Commons-licensed photos on the planet, Flickr has long championed the power of CC licensing..."

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New! Research Report on Data Lifeboat

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

Flow chart outlining the lifecycle of a digital image from creation to publishing to sharing on flickr.com to preservation

Accessible Archives: our strategy for the next three years

Find out more about how we are centering our work on the digital image lifecycle, from creation to preservation

Future Memories Symposium: How Photography Shapes Our Understanding of the World

Tori shares her reflections from the Rijksmuseum x World Press Photo Forum symposium in May

The Forgetful Web: A Case for Reflective Archiving

Digital media theorist, Jill Blackmore Evans, sets up the argument against 'restorative nostalgia' and towards a more enlivened mode of web archiving

Visualizing Reproductive Care Through Archives and Collective Storytelling

Flickr Foundation Spring Research Fellows, Molly Sherman & Emily Fitzgerald, share the second instalment of their research project, investigating image archives of reproductive care on Flickr.

Inheriting the Internet, Part 3: Workshop & Conclusions

Final instalment of Amy & Daniel's Digital Legacy capstone project, this time exploring the topic through in-person workshops

‘Born-Digital Collections, Archives & Memory’ Reflections

Tori shares her reflections and ruminations from the Born-Digital Collections conference at Senate House, London

Inheriting the Internet, Part 2: User Research

In the second instalment, Amy and Daniel discuss the expert interviews and user research they undertook to uncover insights into Gen Z's digital archival literacy

Developing a New Research Method, Part 3: Archivevoice in Practice

Meet the researchers Prakash ran his first Archivevoice workshop with, and their fantastic projects.

Inheriting the Internet, Part 1: Intros & Grounding Research

University of Washington Informatics students, Amy and Daniel, introduce their capstone research into digital legacy practices among young adults

A Prehistory of the Digital Daybook

An introduction to the rituals of record-keeping that have influenced our daybook project

Announcing Digital Daybook

How do we set up with a legible resilient archive of ourselves?

Read on!

Happy 17th, Flickr Commons!

Our flagship program, Flickr Commons, turns 17 years old today!

There's a lot to celebrate

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