Comments on: German Federal Archives, Crowdsourcing & the Wikimedia Commons

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 18:46:01 +0000

A few thousand images per month? That’s no small undertaking, but I can’t imagine how 50 photos from the Library of Congress is acceptable. Over worked staff members, sure…..but come on guys that should only take an hour or so. Certainly we have a couple of interns which can help

By: DH2009: Digital Curiosities and Amateur Collections - Spellbound Blog

DH2009: Digital Curiosities and Amateur Collections - Spellbound Blog — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:24:59 +0000

[...] The Flickr Commons is a big step forward, but it isn’t the only option. There are also varying opinions about how successful the crowdsourcing aspect of the Flickr Commons is for memory institutions. A lot of this goes back to to a core question “how do we know if we have succeeded?”. There is much to be said for setting out clear goals when launching online initiatives. Is your goal increased traffic to your site or crowdsourcing of metadata? A great example of an initiative whose goal is clearly collection of crowdsourced metadata is the German Federal Archives who chose to use the Wikimedia Commons for their photo metadata initiative. [...]

By: Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Open Everything Berlin + CC Salon Berlin

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:13:14 +0000

[...] The donation received good press coverage (see articles in the New York Times, and Spiegel Online) and is an outstanding example of a cultural heritage institution making material available under an open license. (The other high-profile example is Flickr Commons. There’s an interesting blog post comparing the two here.) [...]

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:17:07 +0000

Interesting article thanks! I was not aware of either the German Federal Archives nor Library of Congress contributions to freely available photos.