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Launch Best Little Museum Shop and micro-donations pilotĮveryone we interviewed was concerned about the lack of governance in the program.

Co-design support for development of indigenous and dispossessed collections f ormally adopt C.A.R.E.

Develop content mobility policy to facilitate more accessible movement of content and metadata.

These developments have emerged through our research as responses to changes in contemporary practice: That way, views of photographs become a place for conversation and a stronger community emerges. We want to help connect them more easily to people. Our research revealed many Commons members are quite passive in the community.

Streamline onboarding to easily manage membership and participation.

Incorporate CC0 and Public Domain Mark (PDM) into Commons.

Improve description tools for regular researchers.

Co-design granular, comparative, exportable stats- in progress.

Add new Discovery layer and encourage contribution – first iteration launched January 2023.

If you’re in the program and haven’t talked to us about all this yet, can you please reach out? We’re still trying to connect with every Commons member. We published the Strategy 2021-2023 – Flickr Commons Revitalization in September that year, and we’re mapping our work to it. We also surveyed how the sector has evolved digitally over the last decade. In 2021, we conducted extensive research with the existing Flickr Commons community and related culture workers to explore ideas on how to restore the program.

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