This first activity I completed was from the original project from Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. This activity was to discover Flickr, a photosharing website. In this activity I was to find out how tags work, what groups are, and what people and libraries are using Flickr for.
Flickr is an amazing photographic community. Groups are a way for people to come together around a common interest or photo project. And if a person doesn't find a group that interests them enough to join, they can create their own group. Groups are either public or private and have a pool for sharing photos and videos among group members. Groups also have a discussion board for communication. Flickr has made it easy for people to photo-share with others with unique privacy features and levels that are set up at the group's discresion.
Flickr uses about 20 million different tags, such as words like tiger, snow, sea, jump, or cold, to make collections by associations. These tags make searching easier beacuse you can search for a photo or tag a photo by your own personal description.
For example, the Library of Congress has partnered with Flickr to allow people to access part of their huge photo catalogue. The librarians have choosen about 1,500 photos from their popular collections to show on Flickr. These photos can be tagged with an associated word, making it easier for the next person to find and view the photos on Flickr. This is called the Commons on Flickr.
One photo can have multipe tags in it. One example was someone had tagged a book in a photo of a library, saying "I have this book!"
But it is not just librarians that are using Flickr, just about anyone can use Flickr for photo-sharing possibilties. An interesting image that I found on Flickr was entitled: Collision of Destinies. It is a picture of a Daisy flower. Here is the link to view it -> http://www.flickr.com/photos/joora/4654459199/
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