Social Metadata Makes Media More Available
A few days ago, it was announced that the Library of Congress initiated a pilot project to put the government archive’s copyright-free photos on Flickr. The project, aimed towards gaining “a better understanding of how social tagging and community input could benefit both the library and users of the Library’s collections,†is launching small, putting up a mere 3,000 photos (they’ve got millions) to test the waters.
Although we are unsure of how effective the project will be, it is needless to say that a government institution’s movement to leverage Web 2.0
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