[Web4lib] RE: Flickr

[Bonaria Biancu]

Hi all,

I don't know if can help. I've made some experiments with Flickr, in
particular with geotagging and links between images and OPACs
(following the example of the great Saint John's Library
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/csbsjulibrary/sets/72157600001313073/>).

You can find an example of both the 'hacks' here:
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonaria/524654124/>.
There is a *note* by which you are driven to the bibliographic record
of the book and a *description* that shows the geolocalization of the
library where you can find the item (made with this smart plug-in
<http://tinyurl.com/mn9wt>, but you can also make it by Flickr
itself).

Any suggestion or thought is _very_ appreciated!

Thank you and best regards,

Bonaria

P.S. both the bibliographic record and the geotagged library are only
examples - they're not the _real_ record and library that must be
associated with the book in the photo

Bonaria Biancu
University of Milano-Bicocca - Central Library
Piazza Ateneo Nuovo, 1 - 20126 Milan (Italy)
tel: +39.0264486236

mail: bonariabiancu at gmail.com
blog: http://bonariabiancu.wordpress.com/

Geeky Wunderlich on Second Life

2007/6/1, Amy Rudersdorf <amy_rudersdorf at ncsu.edu>:
> Hi Ray:
>
> I did a presentation at Computers in Libraries in April about the
> experience I've had with Flickr and the Special Collections materials
> we've posted to our site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ncsu_scrc/
>
> We've been up and running now for about 6 months, and while we only have
> 45 images up, we've had over 1,000 hits to our little site and about 10%
> of those hits push through to our digital collections pages on our
> library website. Again, these aren't staggering numbers, but they are
> just one more way for us to get the word (image?) out about our
> collections to a population that might not be familiar with library
> collections databases, but IS familiar with sites like flickr, facebook,
> and myspace.
>
> I've also had several communications with users who have left comments,
> and in a few cases, have updated records based on user input.
>
> The overhead has been pretty low and the payoff pretty good, actually.
>
> Cheers,
> Amy
>
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> -----------------------------------
> Amy Rudersdorf
> Digital Technologies Librarian
> Special Collections Research Center
> North Carolina State University
>
> email: amy_rudersdorf at ncsu.edu
> phone: 919.513.1188
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>
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