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The National Archive on Flickr The Commons
The National Archive is part of a big digitalization project funded by the Dutch government, called “Images for the
Future”
Main goals: -Digitalize 1,2 million photographs -Make them available for a broad audience
Ways: -Joining Flickr The Commons to show and share
our photographs with the rest of the world.
Project• Launching of 400 photographs on the 21st of
October• Seminar NA joins Flickr The Commons on the 4th
of November• New upload of 50 photographs every month.• Pilot of six months, after that an evaluation.
Flickr Goals• Availability of our photographs for a
broad (international) audience• Encouraging public action• To enhance the knowledge of our
historical photocollections with the knowledge of the users
• Knowledge sharing around social tagging
Results so far• 590 000 viewers• 1278 tags• 215 comments• Photographs are being used for different
Flickr groups• Descriptions are being translated in all
kind of languages!
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The Commons on Flickr and Copyright
“no known copyright restrictions”:
1. The copyright is in the public domain because it has expired;
2. The copyright was injected into the public domain for other reasons, such as failure to adhere to required formalities or conditions;
3. The institution owns the copyright but is not interested in exercising control; or
4. The institution has legal rights sufficient to authorize others to use the work without restrictions.
Situation for the National Archive
• The points 1 and 4 are applicable for the NA• The NA is very cautious with copyright issues.
About 50 % of the whole collection is either copyright free or the NA itself is the copyright holder. We only draw photos from this 50 %.
• Technical protection: the resolution of the photographs is too low to use for publicational purposes.
In the future: Creative Commons licences.better understanding of the rights
situation.more clearness about which use is possible
(Commercial<->Non-commercial)Moral rights are better protected
The Futur• More Pilots to involve users:• Picasa• Creative Commons on Flickr• Projects around “water”; the Images for
the Future theme of 2009 • ………….. and much more!
Contact and links:• [email protected]• http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationaal
archief/• http://beeldbank.nationaalarchief.nl/• http://www.nationaalarchief.nl/• http://www.beeldenvoordetoekomst.nl/