Evaluation of Library of Congress pictures on Flickr

[Varese2002]

The publication of 5000 pictures of the marvellous Library of Congress collection on Flickr has been publicized earlier on the Forum.

Now an evaluation of the Flickr collection by the Library of Congress is published, which highlights the considerable success and public interest in these pictures.

And their statistics also demonstrate the popularity of these images: (Summary Report, p. 4-5)

• 10.4 million views of the photos on Flickr.

• 79% of the 4,615 photos have been made a “favorite” (i.e., are incorporated into personal Flickr collections).

• More than 15,000 Flickr members have chosen to make the Library of Congress a “contact,” creating a photostream of Library images on their own accounts.

• 7,166 comments were left on 2,873 photos by 2,562 unique Flickr accounts.

• 67,176 tags were added by 2,518 unique Flickr accounts.

• 4,548 of the 4,615 photos have at least one community-provided tag.

• Less than 25 instances of user-generated content were removed as inappropriate.

• More than 500 Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) records have been enhanced with new information provided by the Flickr Community.

There is a summarized report here and a full version here

As already reported elsewhere in the Forum the German Bundes Archiv has published 100.000 pictures on Wikimedia for public viewing.

It really are exciting times

Cheers

Kees