As Flickr.com celebrates its 20th birthday, it has grown into an online collection of tens of billions of born-digital images (and counting), with their associated metadata. The Flickr Foundation
was established in 2022 with the mission to develop and sustain an accessible social and technical infrastructure to protect this unique collection for future generations.
“We are excited to join the DPC community, not only as a new example of a contemporary archive in the making, but to learn from the breadth of experience held in the DPC membership,” explains
George Oates, Executive Director of the Flickr Foundation. “Archiving billions of born-digital things from millions of creators is no mean feat, so we need all the help we can get!”
An international establishment with users worldwide, the Flickr Foundation joins a growing DPC community with 159 members in 24 countries around the world. Having
recently announced plans to expand its global presence to the Americas, the DPC and its extended network will offer access to good practice and excellence in digital preservation from around the world, for the benefit of Flickr Foundation and the whole
of the DPC membership.
Read more:
https://www.dpconline.org/news/new-members-of-the-dpc/dpc-welcomes-flickr-foundation
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