Commons on Flickr - a report, some concepts and a FAQ - the first 3 months from the Powerhouse Museum

The first three months of having images from the Tyrrell Photographic Collection in the Commons on Flickr have been very interesting. We launched on April 8 with 200 images and have been adding more each week since.

At the 12 week mark we had 600 photos uploaded, mostly location photography with just under 50% geocoded. Whilst we promised at the outset to upload 50 a week we had to break that promise around

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Posted at 11pm on 21/07/08 | 1 comment | Filed Under: open content, geotagging & mapping, Web metrics, Folksonomies, Imaging

Some new technologies talked about at the Horizon.au Inaugural Meeting - July 2008

It has been an interesting day down in Melbourne brainstorming many of the technologies that might impact on the higher education sector in the next 5 years. This brainstorming is forming the basis of the upcoming Horizon.Au Report - a version of the Horizon Report tailored specifically for the Australian and New Zealand community.

The North American 2008 report is available from Horizon, and there is a special Museums Report coming very very soon too.

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Posted at 3pm on 10/07/08 | 2 comments | Filed Under: geotagging & mapping, Interactive Media
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