Flickr

Tool Review

Presented by,DINESH S

ANU MARIYANITHIN NANU

ABOUT FLICKR Flickr is a popular website for users to share

and embed personal photographs, and effectively an online community.

Widely used by photo researchers and by bloggers.

Created by Ludicorp and launched in 2004. Acquired by Yahoo in 2005. Knowledge Domain : Image and video hosting. Flickr acts as an informal knowledge

repository for sharing photographs and videos. Flickr makes effective use of folksonomy.

ORGANIZING

READY TO SHARE

Access Control: Flickr provides both private and public image storage.

PHOTOSTREAM

Signed-in Flickr users can "Follow" the Photostreams of other Flickr photographers

CAMERA ROLLUser

Interface

COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE

GROUPS: INTEREST BASED SHARING

Faceted division of

topics

Groups are based on content types

GROUPS: DEFINING ACCESS

Defining content types,

access and security

Groups lay out ground rules before granting access

GROUPS: INFORMATION ACCESS

Access Control:

Sharing and reuse

Permission for download and reuse is based on the access granted by the author

GROUPS: INTERACTION

Scope for creating

mind maps

Interaction and

collaboration

FOLKSONOMIES

TAG CLOUDS

Tag Cloud

MAPS: GEOTAGGING

Allows users to tag their photo by location and see photos taken near them

Any albums with geotagging can be related to a map using imapflickr. The resulting map can be embedded in a website

KNOWLEDGE SHARING PLATFORMS

THE COMMONS

Institutions can participate to contribute. It provides access to publicly-held photography collections

APP GARDEN

Enables members to create and share apps related to photography or Flickr

20 UNDER 20

Showcases bright young talent

THE CREATE FEATURE

Platform for transforming photographs into physical works of art

FLICKR BLOG

Presents the opportunity to showcase stories

CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSING

Provides an easy way to protect peoples’ work

Flickr VR

STATS FEATURE

Shows information like our most viewed photographs

CAMERA FINDER

Displays information such as the most used cameras

CAMERA FINDER

Structured representati

on of knowledge

BENEFITS TO ORGANIZATIONS Provides a good source of talents for

photography magazines, travel companies etc.

Such companies can showcase their existing talent.

Provides a good base for learning new practices.

Information from ‘The Commons’ could prove useful for research work.

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