wk3 Sharing Images

I didn't do the Flickr week properly first time around. Haven't taken any photo to upload into Flickr. Will follow up with a photo soon. I was amazed at the amount of information 'Taken with a Canon Digital IXUS v3 - More properties' listed under Additional Information next to the uploaded image. Did the information automatically get uploaded when the image was uploaded? Maybe the 'signature' of the photographer can somehow get embedded into those information as well?

Library of Congress uses Flickr to display their archive of photographic collection, tagging them by the year the image was taken. Clicking the year takes you to all the images taken in that period. The images are also individually catalogued with proper LC subject headings, including the format (eg. Transparencies--Color) of the image and its call number. However, it's the Tags which give a more informative description of the visual aspect of the image as opposed to the content which is supplied by the subject headings. It's an example of interfacing the specialist tagging with the users'. I can easily imagine images from picman uploaded onto Flickr.

Just on the use of Flickr, Library of Congress started a pilot project called The Commons . They are posting historical images online to solicit clients to share their knowledge of the images.

wk1, 2 Introductions to Blogs

I like this program of working at my own pace, but I think it needs certain discipline to take 15 mins. a day to leave the normal work aside to explore the web tools. I think this program is great in that everything you need to know is on the web, and it's matter of trialling and erring.

Imagine having a blog in the State Library's website where the clients can exchange amongst themselves their findings. Or, a blog for different topics relating to the collection of the Library. A blog for the current exhibitions to allow clients express exchange their views....

Does anyone know if the name of the blog can be changed?