In January 2008 the Library of Congress launched a pilot project with flickr to ensure better access to their collections and the ensure they have the best possible information about their collections.
The photos will be part of their collection online with no copyright restrictions.
"The Commons" http://www.flickr.com/commons was launched at the same time as the pilot project. This part of the project allows people to tag the images to help with the quality of information held for the bibliographic description of the photos.
A summary report after nine months of the project can be found at http://www.loc.gov.rr/print/flickr_report_final_summary.pdf. .
There are many links which describe tagging and also links to Flickr and the Library of Congress to describe in detail how the project is organised.
Library of Congress, 2008 My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven viewed 23/03/10 http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2008
Excellent Janey - I think this counts as an annotated citation as it fulfils the criteria - short, evaluative and descriptive. The only thing I would probably include for the future is to mention the authority - I mean we all know that LoC is very authoritative but it is still important to mention in an annotation something like - "In January, 2008, the Librry of Congress, the most authoritative library in the USA, launched ...."
ReplyDeleteExcellent work - well done and thank you.
Leonie