Commons...

アメリカ人類学会American Anthropology Associations(AAA)の博物館人類学部会が出している
Museum Anthropologyという雑誌のブログサイトによると、

米国国会図書館がその写真コレクションをFlickrで公開するプロジェクトを開始したそうです。
パイロット・プログラムとして約3000点の写真の掲載を行って大きな反響があった模様。
ソーシャル・ウェブ・サービスを使ってコモンズを作り出す作業として紹介されています。

確かに人文研もプログラムを使えば
いちいち独自のデータベース・システムを作る必要がないので
ほとんどお金をかけずに史料等を公開することは出来ますね･･･。
検索機能も優れていますし･･･。

将来的には、世界の学術情報の一元的な
コモンズ化も可能かも知れませんね。

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一部抜粋

Flickr+Library of Congress=Commons

Flickr launched a new project called The Commons giving the Flickr community the opportunity to contribute to describing the world’s public photo collections. The project is launching a pilot program with the Library of Congress which has had a Prints & Photographs Online Catalog for some time, comprised of about one million images. As part of this pilot, the Library of Congress has published approximately 3,000 photos from two of its popular existing collections to Flickr:

1) The Bain Collection of news photos and 2) American Memory: Color Photographs from the Great Depression.

Now, Flickr members can explore historic photos on Flickr and help add a rich layer of insight to photos – by adding tags and comments. The key goal of this project is to show that the meaning of content can become richer when you add more voices to the way it’s described. The project has been a huge success already. Within the first 24 hours of the launch, 4,000 unique tags were created and 500 comments were left in a flurry of enthusiasm from the community.

This relationship demonstrates how cultural entities from two separate ‘worlds’ can collaborate through social web services, and increase accessibility to cultural heritage collections from around the world. Flickr hopes to expand the project with other cultural institutions in the future, allowing members to explore more abundant collections of cultural and historic photos and truly following its vision to be the ‘eyes of the world’.

For more information, check out the Flickr blog posts: blog.flickr.com