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Powerhouse Museum collection on Flickr

From the Powerhouse Museum comes the news that they have joined the Commons on Flickr. From their website:

"The Powerhouse Museum is the first museum in the world to release publicly-held historical photographs for access on Flickr, one of the largest online photo communities in the world. The Museum joins the world’s largest photo library, the US Library of Congress, which released its first photos for public access on Flickr in January this year."
This means that there will be some fantastic historical photo collections from them posted up on Flickr. Rights associated with them are easily understood and whats more, they have geo-tagged many of the photos so that you can view them on a map. The mapping service is the Yahoo! one - I had a look and while the satellite imagery is great, the map itself didn't have much detail but I guess that will come. Users are encouraged to tag and comment on the photos and that information will ultimately be fed back into the collection records. Another great initiative  from the Powerhouse Museum!

Posted April 9, 2008