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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

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.

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

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

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?

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Happy 17th, Flickr Commons!

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

There's a lot to celebrate

Zoology specimens, Australasian Antarctic Expedition Reports, 1911-1914

From Desiderata to READMEs: The case for a C.A.R.E.-full Data Lifeboat Pt. II

The second of a two-part blog post detailing possible prompts for Data Lifeboat creators to encourage ethical and informed collecting

Welcoming our first 2025 Research Fellows

Emily Fitzgerald & Molly Sherman are joining us as our first research fellow pair to continue development of their Reproductive Reproductions project.

From Desiderata to READMEs: The case for a C.A.R.E.-full Data Lifeboat Pt. I

The first of a two-part blog post detailing the origins and approaches to ethical archiving in the Data Lifeboat tool.

A Phoenix in Paris: Data Lifeboats for User-Generated Histories

The case for citizen-driven collections in enhancing our understanding of contemporary events.

Our Data Lifeboat workshops are complete

Now we are working out what just happened, and here's an outline.

Flickr Commons is growing again!

Read George's update on how our revitalization strategy is progressing...

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