Jan 16 2008
Library of Congress photo archives on Flickr
The Library of Congress has started a project where it is putting images from its photo archives on Flickr, and inviting any and all to add Flickr tags to them. The photos have no known copyright restriction on them. Right now, there are over 3,000 photos, with more to come.
This is really cool for so many reasons. It makes all those images freely available to anyone, anywhere. People can add their own tags, so no one is forced into whatever system the archivist uses. It should encourage other archives to open theirs up. Congrats to both the LOC and Flickr for doing this.