Explore Flickr - Lesson 3

Flickr is a great application for sharing and organizing your photographs.

I am not asking you to join Flickr; we are just going to explore its many features. We are going to start by just jumping in.

Click on http://www.flickr.com/explore

Photograph by Douglas Walker

Creative Commons license Non-commercial 2.0 Generic

In the search bar in the upper right hand page, search for "White Wagtail" in with the "full text" option and the "tags only" option. Notice how many more "hits" there are with full text.

Next, look at on of Sergey's photograph of a White Wagtail in Flickr.

Photograph by Sergey Yeliseev
Creative Commons License

• Look at his tags to the right of the picture: he keeps them simple with the scientific name and common name of the bird (in English).


• His description includes the name of the city: Moscow.
  

Go back to the explore page and search for "Moscow White Wagtail" with the "full text" option and the "tags only" option.

• Notice you will get nine (or more) results with the full text option and none with the tags only option.

Please take time to go back to Sergey's site and click on his "sets" tab. Check on the "wagtails and pipets" set. Chick on "detail" and bookmark this page in del.icio.us with any tags you like.

Go back to the original White Wagtail picture.

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• Notice the sets to the right of the picture. As we have seen, he created a set for "wagtails and pipets" for his own internal organization, but also entered his photograph in a Flickr group called "Birds, Birds, Birds".
  


• Click on the pool and and tag it any fashion you like in Del.icio.us. Notice this group or pool has over 13,000 members

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Photograph by Ahmed Rabea
Creative Commons license

Take a coffee break or spend a little time exploring Flickr on your own. Have fun and play.

End of break.
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Let's jump in again.

Let's go back to the Flickr explore page.



Photography by undercurrent_oa0 Creative Commons license


Explore in Time

• Under the header "interestingness", in the box "Select a Month", choose August, 2004. You will see photographs that qualified as "interesting" from that month.



• Choose any photo and tag it any way you like in del.icio.us.

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Explore the World

• We are still on the Flickr Explore page. On "Other places to explore", click on "A Map of the World". Spend time playing with the zoom controls and tags controls. You'll see the icons in the upper right hand corner. Explore the world.
  


• In the search box, search for "college" in the second box and "Framingham" in the third box. Enter. Click and click again on any of the pictures that pop up until you see the photograph in its Flickr context.
  



• It will be a photograph I've taken at Framingham State College. Because it was geotagged (as well as tagged) the picture is searchable on this map.

Explore a Photo

Look at the photograph of the bound journals. Notice:

• My tagging-the key words I use to describe the photograph. At this point my tagging is a lot messier than Sergey's tagging.

• My groups-the pools I've added the photograph to with the idea of sharing.
• My sets- my own system or organizing my photographs. in Del.icio.us.

Click on the group (pool) "Libraries From Around the World" and tag it in any fashion you like.

Photograph by Barbara L. Slavin
Creative Commons License

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Creative Commons

When you upload a photograph to Flickr, the default for copyright is "All Rights Reserved", which means that you retain full copyright protection. Take a moment to look at the Creative Commons website. If you decide to share your photograph by giving your photograph a Creative Commons license you are allowing others to share, reuse and remix your photographs. Look at the types of licenses in the Creative Commons page in Flickr.

Click on Flickr Advanced Search. In the search window type in anything you would like to search for. Near the bottom of the page, put a check mark next to "Only search within Creative Commons-licensed content" Click on "Search". Click on any photograph and tag it in any fashion you like in del.icio.us.

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Congratulations. You've finished the assignment for Flickr. I'll look for your tags in del.icio.us. Leave a comment in this blog that you have finished. Thank you!