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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 are George’s slides from the day:

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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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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

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