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A woman engineer connects flight deck control wires

Data Lifeboat: Deeper research into the challenge of archiving social media objects

Digital photography is worth collecting...but how?

Welcome, Eryk!

AI researcher and new media artist, Eryk Salvaggio joins as our first research fellow for 2024.

Data Lifeboat Update 2: More questions than answers

Sketches of software, the labyrinth of licensing, and the selection of standards.

color photograph of a black woman in a print dress holding a book looking up at the photographer

Black History Through Archival Images 2

More stories of carefully curated Flickr albums that tell us stories about Black history in the US.

Four young blackboys, three in 4h t-shirts, stand behind their prize-winning cow

Black History Through Archival Images

Many carefully curated Flickr albums tell us stories about Black history in the US.

Introducing Flickypedia, our first tool

Come and meet our first tool, Flickypedia!

Data Lifeboat: NEH Grant Update 1

Our Data Lifeboat project has begun! Meet the crew, and the many, many questions...

Welcome, Susan!

Our fundraising department is born!

Our 2024 plan

Learn about our intentions for our projects, pipeline, and people for 2024

Black and white photograph featuring a white woman blowing out candles on a birthday cake. She is surrounded by another seated woman and a man, standing behind her. On the photo is handwritten 'Nov 22-45' and 'Celebrating Marge's birthday'.

Sixteen years of Flickr Commons

An unidentified girl is seen in a goat cart

Reopening the doors to Flickr Commons

Two men standing by a bell which is significantly larger than either one of them, in a jungle setting

16. Just A Cool Bell

A small cat rubbing up against an old box camera

15. Cat Pictures, Mostly

The Rolling Stones playing a concert in a small auditorium. Mick Jagger is jumping in the air and the word DECCA is on the back brick wall in sans serif letter.

14. Celebrity Surprises

two women examine and put books into a box that says State Library of New South Wales Circulating Box

13. Knowledge in Motion – Book Transportation