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Celebrating a year on the Commons on Flickr
11 November 2009 by Liz Holcombe.
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One year ago today, the Australian War Memorial joined the Commons on Flickr. We put up a set of 30 photos of soldiers, sailors, nurses, airmen, wives, mothers, sisters, sweethearts, a prime minister, and a koala. The photos are part of our photo collection of well over a million images which covers the experience of Australians at war and Australian military history from the 1860s to the present. We have uploaded other sets on the Commons since then, each with its own theme: Christmas, children, animals, ANZAC Day, and First World War aviation.
The 103 images have been viewed almost 180,000 times; there have been over 530 comments, 2,000 favorites, 340 tags and 830 contacts. read on
Common Ground celebrates the Commons on Flickr
02 October 2009 by Liz Holcombe.
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The meet-up will be in the form of a projection onto – or within – the participating institution’s building at night (or suitable day-time location) using a slideshow of content from the Commons on Flickr accounts curated by the community.
There are over 400 images in the set, and they are an amazing selection. There are sad photos, funny ones, cute ones, one that make you think, ones that you will not expect. Some are in colour, many are black and white. Some show ordinary people doing ordinary things, some will make you gasp. They demonstrate not only the differences between the collections from which they are drawn, but also the things that are the same, the common ground.
Here at the Australian War Memorial, the images will projected on the large screen in our orientation gallery over the weekend. The Powerhouse Museum and the State Library of New South Wales are joining forces in Sydney, and the State Libraryof Queensland is also taking part.
In the Northern Hemisphere, the meet-up is on at George Eastman House, State Library and Archives of Florida, the Oregon State University Archives , Brooklyn Museum and the New York Public Library and the Swedish National Heritage Board
Read more about the Commons on Flickr, see the Memorial’s images on the Commons, or read more about the Common Ground event in the Collections Australia Network blog.
Update: If you missed the event, you can still see the images in this slide show on Flickr Commons and read the Common Ground wrap-up on the indicommons blog.
