What is The Flickr Commons
Experience?
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/osucommons/

How did it start?
Yikes! Harnessing the power of the masses?

So how did we get there?

What’s the difference???
osuarchives osucommons

Flickr vs. ContentDM

What happened?
osuarchives osucommons

What do we have planned?
• April 15th
– Partnering with Oregon Explorer, “150 Historic
River Basin Images” in celebration of Oregon’s
150th statehood celebration
• On the horizon for OSU Archives:
– Emergency Farm Labor Service in the Pacific NW
– Finley and Bohlman: photographs of birds
– Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides:
photographs of Pacific NW mills
– Civilian Conservation Corp at Camp Arboretum
– Civilian Conservation Corp and the Red Hat
group (firefighters)
“Buena Vista Lookout, Malheur Lake Migratory Bird Reserve,” Harney
County, Oregon. Gerald W. Williams Collection, OSU Archives

How can we use it?
• Future research projects
– Uses in undergraduate & faculty research
– Folksonomies: study user tagging/commenting
– Virtual reference space
– In-house mage management systems vs. online photo sites
• Possible collaborations
– Within OSU Libraries
– OSU campus community
– Local city, county, state partners
– Professional archivists
– Collaborative launches with Commons members
– Anyone else?

What is “success”?
“I have the world in my hands”:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aiadriano/2320493112/