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May 7, 2013: Looking for love?
I've been at the Brooklyn Museum for about a year-and-a-half now, which is also as long as I've been a resident of our fair… »April 30, 2013: Fund for African American Art: New Acquisition
As many of you know, the Brooklyn Museum launched the Fund for African American Art a few years ago. This ambitious initiative,… »April 25, 2013: Teaching with a 3D Simulacrum
When Shelley and David brought up the idea of 3D printing, my not-so-inner tech geek and my really-blatantly-outer education… »April 18, 2013: Join us at #table17
The Brooklyn Artists Ball is coming up next week and it's an event that we are super excited about; this year's ball celebrates… »April 17, 2013: Replicating a 19th Century Statue with 21st Century Tech
My first exposure to the world of 3D printing took place in 2009 approximately 500 feet under the Earth's surface in a former… »
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Tag Archives: flickrcommons
Geotag Brooklyn
Trying to track the history of the images of Brooklyn that we’re geotagging for #mapBK on Flickr and Twitter and then porting to Historypin reminds me of the game of tag, with kids dashing from one side of the yard to another. This … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Lab, Photography, Technology
Tagged brooklyn, flickr, flickrcommons, mapbk
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Cross-posting the Collection to Wikimedia Commons and the Internet Archive
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: it’s simply not enough to publish assets on our own website—we cannot expect people to come to www.brooklynmuseum.org and we need to be reaching out to communities on the web to … Continue reading
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Common Ground 2009: A Flickr Meetup with NYPL and the Brooklyn Museum
If you are a fan of the The Commons on Flickr and live in the NYC area, come to our Common Ground meetup this weekend to celebrate—we’ve got tons and tons of neato stuff to give away! The folks from … Continue reading
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Common Ground: Global Flickr Commons Meetup Needs Your Favs!
Are you a fan of the materials being uploaded to the Flickr Commons? Well, we are huge fans and that got a few of us wondering about a way to thank the community of people who’ve rallied around our materials … Continue reading
The world through Goodyear’s eyes: photographs from the 1890’s to 1923 from the Brooklyn Museum Archives
Seeing the response to historic photographs that we have posted on Flickr Commons begs a look back on why we have these images and who created them. Being an art museum library and archives our mission is to collect and … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries & Archives
Tagged architecture, collection, egypt, flickr, flickrcommons, goodyear, history, italy, wilbour
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The Community Fills a Void at The Commons on Flickr
You may have read about the departure of George Oates in the media, but if not check out Seb’s blog post on the subject for starters. The thing that I worried about most with George’s absence was the idea that … Continue reading
Flickr Commons: Coping with a Small Staff and Community Ideals
One of the interesting things about The Commons is anyone can do it, which is pretty cool. Often, I think, larger institutions have an advantage over the smaller ones in that they get to put personnel behind coding projects to … Continue reading
Flickr Commons: A Delicate Balance
This is part two in what I think will eventually be a three part series (sorry, Tyler, I realize you are the king of the three part-er, but this requires some room). In the last post on the subject, I … Continue reading
Flickr Commons: It’s Complicated
I’ve already reported on many of the really cool things that can happen when participating in a venture like this one. We continue to get feedback on all kinds of usage and it’s been great to see people discovering these … Continue reading
Top 10 Reasons The Commons on Flickr is Awesome
I promised a follow-up after we’d been in The Commons for a while, so here you go. Top 10 Reasons The Commons on Flickr is Awesome: 10. George Oates is cool and George runs The Commons. 9. Come together now: … Continue reading
Flickr Commons: Begin at the Beginning
We have just joined The Commons on Flickr to share a selection of images with the Flickr community and to begin our partnership, it seemed appropriate that we start at the beginning! William Henry Goodyear was the Museum’s first Curator … Continue reading
Flickr Commons: High Resolution and what does it tell us?
We join The Commons on Flickr today and do so in a manner we hope will start an interesting discussion. Our Principal Librarian, Deirdre Lawrence, has posted about the collections we’ve uploaded and I’m going to write a little about … Continue reading

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