flickr

tool: Flickr

Purpose: 

Flickr is an online community service that enables registered users to upload, tag, group, comment and rate photographs, artwork, illustrations, screenshots and videos. Images may be shared via Flickr galleries or embedded in external blogs and social media. Hosting approximately 4 billion images, Flickr is also available for unregistered users to search and browse galleries and navigate geospatial maps.

Features: 
  • 100MB monthly upload limit (Free accounts); unlimited uploads (Pro subscribers)
  • High Definition video uploads
  • Available in 8 languages
  • Metadata tagging to form tag-clouds and folksonomies
  • Application Programming Interface (API) enables independent programmers to expand Flickr applications
  • Ajax emulates the functionality of desktop photo applications
  • Uploadr drag-and-drop desktop client allows users to upload photos outside the web interface
  • Private and public image storage
  • Guest pass allows private photos to be shared with unregistered users
  • SafeSearch filtering controls
  • RSS and Atom feeds
  • Direct uploads from email and cameraphones
  • Merchandising of canvas prints, posters, cards, calendars and photo books
  • Copyright and creative commons license options
A&H use case 1 description: 
Over 1,500 items from the City of Edinburgh's printing collections were catalogued to highlight Edinburgh’s rich printing and publishing heritage through the online provision of photographs, film and sound recordings. The Open Access virtual museum uses Flickr to import images that are displayed as dynamic photo galleries on the website.
Creator: 
Ludicorp
Publisher: 
Yahoo! Inc
Specifications: 
JPEG
PNG
Ajax
Macromedia Flash
GIF
Data publishing and dissemination: 
User contributed content
Data capture: 
2d scanning and photography
Software/programming languages used: 
flickr
Discipline: 
Visual Arts
Practice-led research: 
2d graphic design
2d illustration
Photography
Alternate tool(s): 

Photobucket

Tags: 
Photography
video
blogging
web services
tag cloud
social media
tagging
Geospatial technology
online community
image galleries
file storage
Platform: 
Microsoft Windows
Linux
JavaScript enabled browser
Mac OS X
Mobile devices
Licence: 
commercial
lifecycleStage: 
publishing
By danafarra at Tue, 08/06/2010 - 17:11

project: Edinburgh City of Print

Grant Holder: Professor Alistair McCleery
Edinburgh: City of Print is a joint AHRC and Museum Galleries Scotland funded partnership project between the Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records (SAPPHIRE) and City of Edinburgh Museums. The project aims to highlight Edinburgh’s rich printing and publishing heritage through the online provision of photographs, film and sound recordings relating to the collections of City of Edinburgh Museums. Edinburgh City of Print www.edinburghcityofprint.org aims to provide access to the printing and publishing collections of the City of Edinburgh Museums. [read more]