•Founded in 2004•> 4 billion images•Features

• an active user community•advanced statistics tracking•easy ways to organize content•plenty of external tools available

• 14 million images within the P&P

• 8,374 images on Flickr

• No known copyright restrictions

• One full-time staff member

• By October 2008, 10.4 million views

67,176 tags added by users by October, 2008

Types of tags:•Descriptive words•Subject words•Emotional/aesthetic responses•Personal knowledge/research•Geotags•Variant forms (wwii, World War II, etc)

• 7,166 user comments on around 3000 images

• Comments mirrored types of tags

• Core group of 20-30 “power commenters” enhance information

• Only 25 comments needed to be removed or moderated

• Lots of dialogue between users as they discuss the content

• Increased awareness of LOC materials

• Increased hits from search engines

• Users tend to search for materials on Mondays

• People responded positively when asked directly for help

• 10,000 images for 25,000 museum, library, and archival materials

• 2,295 images available on Flickr

• Publish using a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike license

• Links back to our website and online database catalog

• Increase access to collections

• Curated, narrative approach, like an online exhibition

• Currently focused on archival and library materials

• 9 sets currently available

• Increase access to archival collections

• Uncurated, using currently-available collection descriptions

• Not limited to photographs

• 36 sets currently available

• Only one object set currently

• Most popular image

• Direct emotional impact

• Variety of tools available, including MemoryMiner and Flickr Uploader

• Input information into data fields, including description, title, and links back to website

• If images have embedded metadata, some software can read it and use it in export