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Library of Congress tests Web 2.0 photo archive
By Wade-Hahn Chan. Federal Computer Week, March 24, 2008. "The Library of Congress has turned to the popular online picture-sharing community of Flickr for help with tagging the library's voluminous photo archives. A pilot project named The Commons will open galleries from older news and wire services to online comments from the public..."
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Last updated: 25 March 20083
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- by Kristen Nicole. Mashable, January 16, 2008. "The Library of Congress has launched its pilot project with Flickr. What began last year as a joint effort to bring the public library's images to the web in a more organized and shareable fashion has finally become a reality. In conjunction with Flickr's new program called The Commons, the Library of Congress has added about 3,000 of its millions of photos to Flickr albums so far..."
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