The Powerhouse is coming up to the 2nd anniversary of our joining the Commons on Flickr. Back when we joined there was only the Library of Congress and we trusted that we were making the correct decision back then. (I’ll be blogging an interview with Paula Bray around the time of the anniversary.) A lot [...]
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Why Flickr Commons? (and why Wikimedia Commons is very different)
January 25th, 2010 · → 8 Just Had A Near-Life Experience
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Downloading, mashing and remixing our collection metadata
November 3rd, 2009 · → 4 Just Had A Near-Life Experience
As you may know, we released our collection metadata a little while back as a downloadable archive. It is linked from both the NSW Government as well as the Federal Government‘s Data Catalogues. This has enabled it to be used in the current Mashup Australia contest and related Hack Day events and for the forthcoming [...]
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Augmented reality update – using Powerhouse geocoded photographs on your iPhone 3GS with BuildAR and Layar
October 17th, 2009 · → 5 Just Had A Near-Life Experience
So you read about MOB’s implementation of the Powerhouse historical images in Layar for the Android phones . . . well, Layar is now available for the iPhone! You’ll need a 3GS as it uses the compass for orientation but the Layar application is free from the App Store. Once you’ve installed Layar on your [...]
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Augmented reality and the Powerhouse images in the Commons (or interesting things clever people do with your data #7215)
October 6th, 2009 · → 8 Just Had A Near-Life Experience
On Saturday night at our (very rainy) Common Ground meetup in Sydney, Rob Manson and Alex Young from BuildAR demonstrated the first version of their augmented reality mobile toolkit using images from the Powerhouse’s geocoded photographs in the Commons on Flickr. This work riffs around the early mashup from Paul Hagon where he combined the [...]
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Suggestify – fixing incorrectly geotagged locations
October 6th, 2009 · Comments Off
Flickr has been on fire recently with the addition of ‘Galleries’. Galleries have been put to great use – apparently 25,000 galleries in the first week – including the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s lovely Astrophotography gallery and, of course, those around the Sydney dust storm, Now Aaron Straup-Cope, also of Flickr, has released an alpha version [...]
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Common Ground – The Global Flickr Commons Meetup October 2 & 3
September 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off
Common Ground – The Global Flickr Commons Meetup October 2 & 3 On October 2 & 3, depending on where you are in the world a group of institutions who have put photographs into the Commons on Flickr are having a ‘meet up’. The Powerhouse is hosting the Sydney one on Saturday October 3, 630-9pm. [...]
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Some clarifications on our experience with ‘free’ content
August 14th, 2009 · → 5 Just Had A Near-Life Experience
Over on the Gov2 blog a comment was posted that asked for more information about our experience at the Powerhouse with ‘giving away content’ for free. I’d be interested to know more about your experience with Flickr and your resulting sales increase. Are these print sales or licensing sales? And are they sales, through your [...]
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Some thoughts: post #GLAM-WIKI 2009
August 9th, 2009 · → 7 Just Had A Near-Life Experience
Photography by Paula Bray License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 (Post by Paula Bray) Seb and I have just spent two days at a conference, in the nation’s rather chilly capital that involved a bunch of Wikimedians (wonder what that would be called) and members from the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries and Museum sector) sector. [...]
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Virtuous circle – from visitor to speaker
July 26th, 2009 · → 2 Just Had A Near-Life Experience
This short post is for everyone who naively asks about the “ROI of social media” and whether “websites can be proven to result in museum visitation”. Two years ago Bob Meade wasn’t a regular visitor to the Museum (despite being directly in one of our “target demographics”) let alone a user of our website. Then [...]
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Digital graffiti or derivative art? Notes on a skeleton
July 13th, 2009 · → 4 Just Had A Near-Life Experience
A pretty innocuous and humorous image from our Phillips Collection in the Commons on Flickr with a lot of views – nearly 33,000. A quick mouseover reveals this hodge podge of notes. Is this graffiti? Should they be removed? Would removal just be ‘feeding the trolls‘? Are they doing it for the lulz? Or is [...]
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