Background to social media at National Library of Scotland, the Flickr evolution and being part of the the Flickr Commons initaitive, presentation by J. Toon, NLS, given at CIGS Web2.0 metadata and issues seminar, Fri 30 Jan, 2009. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlscotland/

1. Fiddling with flick r

6. As a marketing tool

10. Using social media as a communications tool

14. Use of utility applications to deliver our collections to online repositories for reuse

17. flick r

22. Web-Based Upload Form Keep track of how much of your monthly upload capacity you’ve used Click on Choose photos Credits: Nebraska :Library Commission www.nlc.state.ne.us/Netserv/flickr.ppt

23. Choose Photos to Upload Locate and select the image file on your computer. Click Open to transfer the file path to the upload form. Credits: Nebraska :Library Commission www.nlc.state.ne.us/Netserv/flickr.ppt

24. Describe Your Photos Add Title , Description , and Tags . Click on Save . Credits: Nebraska :Library Commission www.nlc.state.ne.us/Netserv/flickr.ppt

25. Batch Edit Options

26. Very limited

27. flick r Uploadr Richer functionality

28. Is this worth the effort?

29. Just about right

30. Comments are cool

31. Groups

32. Tags

33. Links back to NLS System

36. Starting to get excited…..

37. The Commons on flick r

47. Machine Tags

49. Innovative uses?

52. Is the future data distributed through a hub? Hang on, isn’t this just web 3.0

54. Recommendations?

56. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlscotland

57. Thanks for listening – any questions? James Toon [email_address] 0131 623 3770