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Data Lifeboat Update 3: Legal stuff, workflow, and a day out.

Learning about physical lifeboat design, starting legal framework with C.A.R.E.

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New! Flickr Commons Explorer

Browse around the wonderful Flickr Commons collection all in one place!

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African American men and women posed for portrait on steps at Atlanta University, Georgia

Repurposing and Remixing Archival Images

Looking closer at a passing piece of pop culture.

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A woman engineer connects flight deck control wires

Data Lifeboat: Deeper research into the challenge of archiving social media objects

Digital photography is worth collecting...but how?

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Welcome, Eryk!

AI researcher and new media artist, Eryk Salvaggio joins as our first research fellow for 2024.

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Data Lifeboat Update 2: More questions than answers

Sketches of software, the labyrinth of licensing, and the selection of standards.

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color photograph of a black woman in a print dress holding a book looking up at the photographer

Black History Through Archival Images 2

More stories of carefully curated Flickr albums that tell us stories about Black history in the US.

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Four young blackboys, three in 4h t-shirts, stand behind their prize-winning cow

Black History Through Archival Images

Many carefully curated Flickr albums tell us stories about Black history in the US.

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Introducing Flickypedia, our first tool

Come and meet our first tool, Flickypedia!

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Data Lifeboat: NEH Grant Update 1

Our Data Lifeboat project has begun! Meet the crew, and the many, many questions...

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Welcome, Susan!

Our fundraising department is born!

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Our 2024 plan

Learn about our intentions for our projects, pipeline, and people for 2024

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Black and white photograph featuring a white woman blowing out candles on a birthday cake. She is surrounded by another seated woman and a man, standing behind her. On the photo is handwritten 'Nov 22-45' and 'Celebrating Marge's birthday'.

Sixteen years of Flickr Commons

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An unidentified girl is seen in a goat cart

Reopening the doors to Flickr Commons

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Two men standing by a bell which is significantly larger than either one of them, in a jungle setting

16. Just A Cool Bell

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