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Europeana 2025

Preserve, Protect, Reuse

Saving billions of things on social media: Data Lifeboat to the Rescue?
Flickr turned 21 years old in February 2025. It’s a grandma of the web, and has grown into a collection of tens of billions of images; a unique representation of our shared histories over the last 20+ years. The Flickr Foundation was established in 2022 to keep Flickr pictures visible for 100 years (whether they’re on Flickr or not). It is working on a decentralization solution called Data Lifeboat, a self-contained, well-designed archival unit containing a selected sliver of Flickr pictures and their metadata. Join this session to see an overview of the prototyping and user research to date!

Here’s George and The Boss of Europeana, the delightful and esteemed Harry Verwayen.

Harry Verwayen and George Oates at Europeana 2025 - Preserve, Protect, Reuse

Here are George’s slides from the day:

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black and white image of a straight razor with bloodstains on it.

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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