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    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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    Flickr Foundation at Mozilla Festival

    Tori and George headed to Barcelona to talk digital legacy in the age of social media and what should be done about it

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    4,400 new glass negatives added to Flickr Commons

    Please welcome the Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law Library to Flickr Commons! Our first Hungarian member.

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    Meet Elizabeth Goodspeed, Casual Archivist

    "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."

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    Welcome Rachel Frick to Our Board!

    Digital libraries and cultural heritage leader, Rachel L. Frick, joins our Board of Directors.

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    Data Lifeboats at the XVI International Conference of the Image

    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.

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    International Conference of Cyber-Humanities Recap

    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.

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    An Interview with Tosin Adeosun, Founder & Curator of African Style Archive

    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.

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    Welcome, Anna!

    Anna will be joining us on an AHRC PhD placement from University College London to support on Data Lifeboat research.

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    Greetings, Oreoluwa! Introducing our next 2025 Research Fellow

    Oreoluwa Akinyode joins us as our second Research Fellow of 2025, exploring the historic interplay of West African photography and textiles.

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    Looking for Daybooks in the Archives

    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.

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    Four Principles for Reflective Web Archiving

    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. 

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    Flickr Foundation goes Dutch!

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

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