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HumSlides on Flickr: using an online community platform to host and enhance an image collection

Mahony, S; (2013) HumSlides on Flickr: using an online community platform to host and enhance an image collection. In: Dunn, S and Mahony, S, (eds.) The Digital Classicist 2013. (pp. 125-146). Institute of Classical Studies: London, UK.

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Abstract

Moving a teaching and research image collection from an analogue to a digital medium for delivery brings with it many advantages but at the same time it also presents many new problems and ones probably not previously considered. This chapter discusses the move of a departmental slide collection, firstly to a proprietary in-house format, and then subsequently to the online community platform Flickr. It draws on the experience and model of the Library of Congress in partnership with Flickr and The Commons, as well as initiatives at Oxford and at New York University, and in doing so critically analyses and evaluates the possibilities for the future development of this collection. It asks why this collection is not currently being used to its potential and examines how the development of a user community would help to enrich the collection and ensure long term sustainability and future growth.

Type: Book chapter
Title: HumSlides on Flickr: using an online community platform to host and enhance an image collection
ISBN-13: 9781905670499
Publisher version: http://events.sas.ac.uk/icls/publications/1014
Language: English
Keywords: Digital Humanities, pedagogy, digitisation
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Information Studies
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1472469
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