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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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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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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

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Future Memories Symposium: How Photography Shapes Our Understanding of the World

Tori shares her reflections from the Rijksmuseum x World Press Photo Forum symposium in May

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