Flickr Blog: Building Flickr Archives with Data Lifeboat. “With Data Lifeboat, you can create an archive to document a specific time and place, share memories of an event, or curate a collection of perspectives from around the globe. Simply put, conscious archiving with Data Lifeboat can allow you to create and share your own slice of history with future viewers from this vast collection. Here […]

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Flickr's Data Lifeboat Will Preserve Photos and Their Context for 100 Years

The Flickr Foundation has announced the beta release of a new archiving tool that is designed to preserve photos for 100 years.

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With billions of images, #Flickr is a massive visual history collection—but it’s too big for any single #archive to preserve on its own. In this CNI session, learn how the https://glammr.us/@flickrfdn Data Lifeboat project tackles this challenge by bundling images and #metadata into preservation-friendly packages, focusing on content and context over standard web archiving: https://youtu.be/lCZq_Tv3wOE

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