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Our flagship program, Flickr Commons, has helped over 100 institutions like NASA and the Library of Congress share almost two million photographs with the world, sparking curiosity, uncovering stories, and keeping history alive.

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Greetings, Oreoluwa! Introducing our next 2025 Research Fellow

Oreoluwa Akinyode joins us as our second Research Fellow of 2025, exploring the historic interplay of West African photography and textiles.

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Looking for Daybooks in the Archives

Our research lead Fattori McKenna sifted through Flickr Commons for daybooks throughout history to consider what can be gained by keeping a Flickr Foundation daybook.

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Four Principles for Reflective Web Archiving

Jill Blackmore Evans returns to put forth four principles for enacting Reflective Web Archiving, to deliver a more responsible, equitable and usable web archive for the future. 

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Flickr Foundation goes Dutch!

Tori shares her highlights from Flickr Foundation's big week in the Netherlands talking data care and digital commons

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Creative Commons 4.0 has arrived on Flickr!

"As the home of the largest collection of Creative Commons-licensed photos on the planet, Flickr has long championed the power of CC licensing…"

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New! Research Report on Data Lifeboat

Please enjoy our write-up of the co-design workshops we ran last year with preservation experts, archivists, librarians, academics, and technologists on the viability of Data Lifeboat

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