Library of Congress Needs Help!

[Diane Merkel]

For those of you who love photos of all periods, here's an opportunity to help the Library of Congress tag its photos. It sounds as if New Yorkers will be able to help the most.

As part of an effort to expand access to its photograph collections and tap the collective knowledge of user-generated content, the Library of Congress Wednesday launched a pilot project with photo-sharing site Flickr to publish some 3,000 photos.

The library's new Flickr page includes collections from the Great Depression and of life in New York City during the early 1900s for which no copyright restrictions are known to exist, said Matt Raymond, the library's director of communications.

"If all goes according to the plan, the project will help address at least two major challenges: how to ensure better and better access to our collections and how to ensure that we have the best possible information about those collections for the benefit of researchers and posterity," Raymond wrote on the library's blog.

Article: www.nytimes.com/idg/IDG_002570DE00740E18002573D3006B14C8.html?ref=technology